事实上，正确理解他人根本不是生活的全部意义。
The tyranny of secrecy is the most tyrannical of all tyrannies.
保密的暴政是所有暴政中最暴虐的。
The novel is the great art form of lying in order to tell the truth.
小说是为了讲述真相而撒谎的伟大艺术形式。
The best reader is the writer who reads to steal.
最好的读者是那些为了偷师而阅读的作家。
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
The writer's life is a life of sentences.
作家的生活是由句子构成的生活。
The terror of art is that you don't know where it's taking you.
艺术的恐怖之处在于你不知道它会把你带向何方。
You build your life around the truth, and then the truth changes.
你围绕真相建立生活，然后真相改变了。
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.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
作家是被激发模仿欲望的读者。
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
写作的行为是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得这无关紧要，你就不会费心去做。