The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

"I believe children's books should be beautiful objects, treasured and revisited."

如果同情心的一个极端，是这些八卦小报。另一个极端便是悲剧和悲剧艺术，我想说的是或许我们该从悲剧艺术中学习，你不会说汉姆雷特是个失败者，虽然他失败了，他却不是一个失败者。我想这就是悲剧所要告诉我们的，也是我认为非常重要的一点。

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

在商业上你必须无情，但同时也要公平。

"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices, its hopes and fears."

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

塑造我们生活的不是我们偶尔做的事情，而是我们持续做的事情。

你不必喜欢它，但你必须接受它是艺术。

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

人的首要职责是为自己思考。