人对他自己建筑起堤防来。

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

羞耻是最私密的情感，却将我们所有人联系在一起。

The power of literature lies in its ability to disturb, to question, to undermine what is taken for granted.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.