我会用city而永不用Metropolis来表达城市,用cop而永不用policeman来表达警察,既然三丶四个字母可以赚七个美分,为什么要用长而赘的字呢?
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands – it’s the upstairs that counts.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
La literatura es una forma de resistencia, una manera de decir que no todo está perdido.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
"Literature is the art of making the invisible visible."
成功的秘诀是知道别人不知道的事情。