I don't want to fall in love, I just want to fall asleep.

小说是所有艺术形式中最民主的，因为它只依赖于读者的想象力。

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

艺术应该安慰不安的人，扰乱安逸的人。

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.