文学的本质在于捕捉人类存在的短暂瞬间，并通过文字赋予它们永恒。

过去并不属于我们，而我们属于过去。

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

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.

译文：人生要及时行乐，等到老了再看花，只会觉得凄凉。