I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

我不害怕风暴，因为我正在学习如何驾驶我的船。

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.