Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!

最好的领导者是那些听比说更多的人。

译文：锦官城里每日音乐声轻柔悠扬，一半随着江风飘去，一半飘入了云端。这样的乐曲只应该天上有，人间里哪能听见几回?

The act of writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.