No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

你额头的汗水赚取的收入应该以最低的税率征税，而不是最高的税率。资本收益应该以更高的税率征税。

The idea is to make something that has never been seen before.