铁蛋儿的问题，不是他不识字，也不是他不会思考，而是他不知道什么是思考，并且将其与感觉相混淆。
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。
译文：如果志向不坚毅，思想境界不开阔，沉溺于世俗私情，碌碌无为，永远混杂在平庸的人群之后，就会难免沦落到下流社会，成为没有教养，没有出息的人。
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
作家必须有勇气说出别人不敢说的话。
世界上充满了显而易见的事情，却没人注意到。
The pace of change demands agility—both in thought and action.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."