好的小说告诉我们角色的真相；伟大的小说告诉我们自己的真相。

Your 20s are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual， weird， bold， risky， unexplainable， crazy， unprofitable， and look nothing like "success". For the rest of your life， these experiences will serve as your muse

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

一个作家是一个对现实世界不满意的人，他想要改变它，改善它，让它变得更美丽，更公正，更宜居。

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

It makes sense to be busy living or busy dying.