你读得越多，你就会发现同样的故事一遍又一遍地被讲述，只是角色和背景不同。

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary in ordinary life.

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."

"Every person is a universe, and every story is a star in that universe."

假设生活会非常艰难，然后问自己能否承受。如果答案是肯定的，你就赢了。

只有一个老板，那就是顾客。他可以通过把钱花在别处，轻而易举地解雇公司里的任何人，从董事长开始。

从亚当和夏娃时代到农业发明之前，人类的生存一定是岌岌可危的，因为他无法确保自己的食物供应。