注释：菑畬（zī she耕耘）以心术为根本，以伦理为树干，以学问为良田，以文章为花萼，以事业为果实，以书籍为园林，以歌咏为音乐，以义理为食物，以著述为彩绣，以诵读为耕耘，以讨论学问为累积，以先贤的言行为师友，以敬忠笃信为修持，以行善降祥为给用，以乐天知命为依归。

"A story untold is a life unlived; through narratives, we give meaning to our existence."

The most reliable and cost-effective way to improve performance is to use parallelism.

我吃文字从来没反胃过。

An actor I know is a dimwit who can't count higher than the fingers on his hands. But once he gets on stage, the audience goes so wild, you'd think the house would split in two.

世界是一座墓地，而我们是它的幽灵。

Memory is a trickster, always rewriting the past.

"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then throw rocks at him."