It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

生活的智慧在于摒弃不必要的东西。

现实总是比小说更丰富、更复杂。

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.