The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

在某种意义上，生活中的最重大和最重要问题都是无法解决的。我们无法解决它们，只能在成长中超越它们。

Every seed planted is a promise to the future.

改变始于决定，但靠行动维持。

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

生活是不公平的，要去适应它。