You build your life around what you fear, and then you spend your life being afraid.
你围绕你所恐惧的事物建立生活，然后你的一生都在恐惧中度过。
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
对跑步的痴迷实际上是对更多生活潜力的痴迷。
A writer is someone who pays attention to the world.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
事实上，无论如何，正确理解他人并非生活的全部。误解才是生活，误解、误解、再误解，然后经过仔细的重新考虑，再次误解。
Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority of a voice, not the purity of a soul.
文学不是一场道德选美比赛。它的力量来自声音的权威，而非灵魂的纯洁。
The truth is always a compound of two half-truths.
真相总是由两个半真半假的东西组成。
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.'
每个人都想要的唯一执念：'爱'。
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
The terror of art is that you don't know where it will take you.
艺术的可怕之处在于你不知道它会把你带向何方。
You build your life around what happens to you.
你围绕发生在自己身上的事情构建生活。
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway.