約翰·厄普代克
美國文學(xué)大師
"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."
性就像金錢；只有太多才足夠。
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
一個好故事讓我們進入的內(nèi)心空間是宗教的老公寓。
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
基本的支持和鼓勵來自內(nèi)心，源于一種瘋狂的想法，即你的社會需要知道只有你能告訴它的事情。
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
藝術(shù)提供的是空間——一種精神的喘息空間。
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
夢想會成真；如果沒有這種可能性，大自然就不會激勵我們?nèi)碛兴鼈儭?/div>
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
真正的紐約人暗中相信，生活在其他地方的人在某種意義上一定是在開玩笑。
"We are most alive when we're in love."
當(dāng)我們戀愛時，我們最有活力。
"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers."
不愿滿足現(xiàn)狀，愿意為了自己的癡迷而冒險過度，這就是藝術(shù)家與娛樂人士的區(qū)別。
"Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face."
名望是一張會侵蝕面孔的面具。
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
當(dāng)我寫作時，我的目標(biāo)不是紐約，而是堪薩斯州以東一個模糊的地方。