四月是最残忍的月份，从死去的土地里培育出丁香，把回忆和欲望混合，又用春雨搅动迟钝的根芽。
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
过去是一个谜，我们都在试图拼凑它。
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
Mom, why do you laugh so much? / Because I have you as my daughter.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
如果我们像耕种土地一样耕种海洋，就必须从过去的错误中吸取教训。
The world doesn’t need more cute things. It needs more truth.
——辛格1978年诺贝尔文学奖获奖演说