If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

"A writer must be a spy on humanity."

It is futile to demand an a priori proof of the existence of objects which are not immediately ‘given’.

我不断地看到有些人在生活中越过越好，他们不是最聪明的，甚至不是最勤奋的，但他们是学习机器，他们每天夜里睡觉时都比那天早晨聪明一点点。

生活中有些事比输赢比赛更重要。