艺术是世间唯一需要认真看待的事，艺术家却是社会上唯一拒绝认真的人。

任何经济体中最重要的资源是其人民的才能。

经验只是我们给错误起的名字。

Love is not kind or honest and does not contribute to happiness in any reliable way.

历史的进程是自由的缓慢行进。

The best biographies are those that make the reader feel they have met the subject in person.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

作家必须甘于孤独。