Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

"Every character I play leaves a part of themselves with me, and I leave a part of myself with them."

实现自己的命运是一个人唯一真正的责任。

War is not a profession but an experience.

文学的力量在于它使我们感到不那么孤独。

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here.