我们民主的最大祝福是自由。但归根结底，我们唯一的自由是自律的自由。

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

The act of writing is an act of transformation.

解释：美色各不相同，看起来都很美好；动听的乐声各不相同，听起来都很快意。