It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
我们期望晚餐不是出自屠夫、啤酒商或面包师的仁慈,而是出自他们对自身利益的考虑。
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
最好的艺术是改变你的艺术。
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.