"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

对某些年青人来说，如果他可和高阶的长官有直接接触的话，人生的战役已赢了大半；而每一位年青人的远大目标应该是所做的事超出他的职责范围--所做的事可以吸引在上面注视着他的人的注意。

当老人们种下他们知道自己永远不会坐在其下的树时，社会就会变得伟大。

记忆是一个我们迷失其中以找到自己的迷宫。

The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

We are all searching for something, even if we don't know what it is.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.