对音乐家真正的考验不在于他们在音乐会上的表现，而在于他们在排练中的行为。

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

出自晋·葛洪《抱朴子·应嘲》。虽说昆山的玉石很多，但不能救济原宪的贫穷。喻指毫无价值的空话。

所有儿童都应被善意地欺骗，认为成长的过程没有伤痛。

A quarry manager needs the precision of an engineer and the vision of a poet.

德性的知识，不是从见闻中产生的。

Language is the writer's only tool, and yet it's never enough.

我们对显而易见的事物视而不见，而且对自己的盲目也视而不见。