"A writer’s job is to pay attention to the world."

We will laugh at the laughable， and will not be able to refrain from laughing.

世界上充满了那些不再倾听自己内心声音的人，或者只倾听邻居的声音来了解他们应该做什么、应该如何行为以及应该遵循什么价值观的人。

And if you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading. And a big chunk of the rest of the time is spent talking one on one either on the telephone or personally with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. In other words, it looks quite academic, all this worldly success.