You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
你不必非得做个好人。你不必跪着走过一百英里的沙漠去忏悔。你只需要让你身体里柔软的动物去爱它所爱的。
The world is not what it seems to be; it is what we believe it to be.
解释：德行不够优良的人，难以有崇高的信念与理想。才能不够突出的人，难以有渊博的知识和见解。
The stories we don’t tell are the ones that haunt us the most.
Literature is the bridge between the individual and the universal.
我对人类的状况和是什么让人们心动感兴趣。
人是唯一会在同一块石头上绊倒两次的动物。