文者，所以明道也。故其辞不可不修，而道不可不明。
文章是用来阐明道理的。因此文辞不能不修饰，而道理不能不阐明。
我不相信上帝，但我想念他。
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
The task of the writer is to confront the chaos of existence and to find some kind of order within it.