我们不会获得智慧；我们必须自己发现它，经过一段没有人能代替我们或免除我们的旅程。

真正的竞争力不是价格，而是价值。

Auctions are a microcosm of how markets function—information, competition, and incentives all interact.

I've learned that failure is just part of the process, and you can't let it define you.

【讲解】：人格高尚的人不可用小事情考验他，却可以委以重任；人格低下的人不可委以重任，却可用小事情考验他。

We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

生活中唯一真正的失败是不忠于自己所知道的最好的东西。

我不是光明，我是黑暗。

艺术家必须是哲学家、诗人，尤其是革命者。

小说是一种印象，不是一种论证；它是生活的一种印象。