Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

We are all of us, in our different ways, seeking to escape the trap of our own minds.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

"The present is just the past with a different disguise."

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

艺术的目的是让舒适的人不安，让不安的人舒适。