"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
世界上充滿了自童年起就從未以開放心態(tài)面對開放之門的人。
"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
一個人的工作不過是通過藝術(shù)的迂回,重新發(fā)現(xiàn)那兩三個偉大而簡單的形象,正是它們讓他的心初次敞開。
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
我們寫作不是因為我們想寫,而是因為我們不得不寫。
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."
人生最難的是知道該跨過哪座橋,又該燒掉哪座橋。
"Every man is the hero of his own story."
每個人都是自己故事里的英雄。
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it."
技術(shù)的訣竅在于如此安排世界,以至于我們不必去體驗它。
"The worst enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
真理最大的敵人不是謊言——刻意、虛假且不誠實——而是神話——持久、有說服力卻不切實際。
"We live our lives as a tale that is told."
我們的人生如同被講述的故事一樣度過。
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
對于那些感受的人來說,世界是一場悲劇,但對于那些思考的人來說,世界是一場喜劇。
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."