文学是耐心的艺术，无论对写的人还是读的人都是如此。

真相很少纯粹，也绝不简单。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

正直不会遭遇祸患，谦和不会损害道义。