I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny. 我去过太多地方了。我就像一个坏便士。 -- Jack Nicholson 杰克·尼科尔森
People are always waiting to be discovered. 人们总是在等待被发现。 -- Jonathan Carroll 乔纳森卡罗尔
What animal magnetism drew thee and me together---I know not. 是什么动物的磁力把你我吸引到一起的——我不知道。 -- Charlotte Bronte 夏洛特勃朗特
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. 其他学生的社会阶层越高,他们的成绩也就越高。 -- James Samuel Coleman 詹姆斯·塞缪尔·科尔曼
That which is good for the back is bad for the head. 对背部有益的东西对头部有害。
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. 当然,你总是在考虑如何解读它。我总是想一口气读完一本书。 -- Joan Didion 琼·狄迪恩
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. 连环纵火犯是最难逮捕的,因为证据已被烧毁。 -- Joseph Wambaugh 约瑟夫·万博
When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start. 当一部小说问世时,它是一种优雅。宇宙中的某些东西已经原谅你很久了,所以你可以开始了。 -- Norman Mailer 梅勒
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. 遵守戒律,路漫漫其修远兮;遵守戒律,路漫漫其修远兮。如果有人遵循模式。 -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca 马库斯·安纳尤斯·塞内卡
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. 我是在上东区一个白人新教徒的社会里长大的,那是一个拄着拐杖死去的社会。 -- Harry Mathews 哈里·马修斯