伟大的小说是作者与读者跨越时空的对话。

性能的关键在于优雅，而不是大量的特殊情况。

一言一行，效法古代圣贤，就会道德长进；功名利禄，听任天命安排，就会心意闲适；因果报应，考虑子孙福祸，就会办事公正；口体之事，考虑疾病袭来，就会俭朴节省。

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.