"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
世界上充满了自童年起就从未以开放心态面对开放之门的人。
"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回，重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象，正是它们让他的心初次敞开。
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
我们写作不是因为我们想写，而是因为我们不得不写。
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
人生最难的是知道该跨过哪座桥，又该烧掉哪座桥。
"Every man is the hero of his own story."
每个人都是自己故事里的英雄。
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it."
技术的诀窍在于如此安排世界，以至于我们不必去体验它。
"The worst enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
真理最大的敌人不是谎言——刻意、虚假且不诚实——而是神话——持久、有说服力却不切实际。
"We live our lives as a tale that is told."
我们的人生如同被讲述的故事一样度过。
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
对于那些感受的人来说，世界是一场悲剧，但对于那些思考的人来说，世界是一场喜剧。
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."