"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

Never stop learning because the world never stops changing.

The purpose of psychology is to understand how we cope with the world.

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

真正的无知不是知识的缺乏，而是拒绝获取知识。

I write to understand what hurts me and to make it exist outside of myself.

I'm not a politician. I'm an actor. I'm here to entertain, not to preach.

在战争中，武力和欺骗是两个关键的美德。