在文学中，就像在爱情中一样，我们会对别人所选择的东西感到惊讶。
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
当教授坚持说计算机科学是X但不是Y时，请对他的研究生抱有同情心。
林百克法官与孙逸仙谈话(Judge Linebarger，Conversation with Sun Yet-sen)
I used to walk down the street like I was a star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
The true poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
希望是美好的，也许是人间至善，而美好的事物永不消逝。
The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the totality of life.