"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."
人们通常没有意识到，所有的作家，即使是最伟大的作家，首先和最后也都是读者。
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
白日梦的代价总是这一刻的回归，与之前的一切重新对齐，而现在看起来似乎更糟了一些。
"A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's."
故事是一种心灵感应。通过在纸上涂写符号，她能够将思想和感情从她的心灵传送到读者的心灵。
"Memory is what we thought we'd forgotten; it's what we have forgotten we've forgotten."
记忆是我们以为已经忘记的东西；它是我们已经忘记自己忘记了的东西。
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
当我们爱时，我们总是努力变得比现在更好。当我们努力变得更好时，周围的一切也会变得更好。
"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."
一个人格就是一场完整的演说家和压力集团的集会，有儿童、煽动者、共产主义者、孤立主义者、战争贩子、骑墙派、贪污者、祈祷者、冒险家和职员；每一个都只占一席之地。
The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.
应对死亡的唯一方法就是将之前的一切转化为艺术。
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.
世界是一个美好的地方，值得为之奋斗。
We are all of us made by what we have done, and what has been done to us.
我们都是由我们所做的事以及别人对我们所做的事塑造的。
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。