Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world； everything degenerates in the hands of man.
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
以孩子們能理解的方式寫(xiě)一些困難的主題是很重要的。