Pandemonium, the high capital / Of Satan and his peers. 大混乱，撒旦和他的同伴们的首都。 -- John Milton 约翰·米尔顿
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts. 保存笔记根本不是我文化的一部分。我从未听说过有作家保存他早期的草稿。 -- Naguib Mahfouz 纳吉布·马哈福兹
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice. 没有牺牲就没有伟大的智慧。 -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. 完全清醒的我可以使我最美妙的梦想成真。 -- Lorenz Hart 劳伦茨·哈特
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men. 你能关城门，却关不了人的口。
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. 如果一个人认真对待圣经，他会发疯的。但是要认真对待圣经，你必须已经疯了。 -- Aleister Crowley 阿莱斯特·克劳利
I was taught that pain is bad. 我被教导痛苦是不好的。 -- Keith Miller 基思·米勒
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. 在任何大城市里，看戏都有许多不便之处，但最大的不便通常是戏本身。 -- Kenneth Tynan 泰南
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. 我母亲想让我们明白，今天你生活中的悲剧有可能成为明天的喜剧故事。 -- Nora Ephron 诺拉·艾芙隆
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merely a marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. 相信我，我的朋友，罗马就像它自己的泰斯塔科山，只不过是一大堆破碎的、被丢弃的酒壶。 -- Arthur Hugh Clough 克拉夫