Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
生活并非易事……除非你面前有一个伟大的理想，将你提升到个人的痛苦、软弱以及各种背信弃义和卑鄙之上，否则你无法度过它而不陷入沮丧和愤世嫉俗。
I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
孔子在河边说：“时光如流水！日夜不停留。”
我不活在过去，我专注于现在和未来。
我不完美，但我就是我。
自然界的存在与任何命题的存在是同一类型的事实。
The true writer is one who writes because he has something to say, not because he wants to say something.