When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

When we think we have been understood, we feel we can control the world around us.

诗人的职责是将那些我们共有的、如此深刻、如此重要却又难以名状的情感诉诸文字。

任何事情在变容易之前都是困难的。在某个东西成为一个突破之前，它都只是一个愚蠢的想法。

Old age is not interesting until one gets there.

语言是存在的家。