Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

可怕的是假装二流是一流的。假装你不需要爱，而实际上你需要；或者假装你喜欢你的工作，而你很清楚你能做得更好。

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."

否认进化史就是否认我们自己。

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.