I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
To be a writer is to be a perpetual outsider, always observing, never quite belonging.
没有思想的词是死的东西,而没有用词体现的思想仍然是影子。
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the soul.