"The past is not dead. It is not even past."

Not all of us can afford to be romantic.

有些东西是很难找到的。

这是数着别人契上的齿数，而以为自己很富有。 

The rule of recognition is the ultimate rule in a legal system, which identifies the criteria for valid law.

我的胃里打满了悲伤和愤怒的结，但我继续微笑着。

"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him."

Life is about creating yourself.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.