饥饿的时候就不惜妄取以保存性命，吃得很饱的时候又用虚伪的行为来粉饰自己。 

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

写作的行为是一种记忆的行为。

时间是人类为了理解宇宙而创造的概念，但宇宙本身是永恒的。

教育不是为生活做准备；教育本身就是生活。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

To create is to breathe life into the inanimate.