Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass, and die.

I’m not here to be perfect. I’m here to be real.

译文：广泛听取意见才能明辨是非，偏听偏信则会昏聩。强调决策需兼收并蓄。

信息的价值在于其减少不确定性的能力。

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.