The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. 动物的本质是要自己生活，而蔬菜是要别人给它生活的。 -- Henry Mayhew 梅休
Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now. 没有多少人，甚至当代的作家，现在还在写。 -- Anna Deavere Smith 安娜·德维·史密斯
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life. 我想我可以用我的余生来写神秘故事。 -- Jane Smiley 简·斯迈利
Is it sin To rush into the secret house of death Ere death dare come to us? 在死亡还没有向我们降临之前就冲进死亡的秘密之屋，难道是罪吗? -- William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚
I don't want to be unapproachable. 我不想变得难以接近。 -- Angie Harmon 安吉·哈蒙
By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour. 通过劳动我们可以找到食物和水，但是我们所有的劳动都不能再为我们找到一个小时。 -- Kenneth Patton 肯尼斯·巴顿
Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover. 也许你很快就会找到另一个，一个更美丽的爱人。
What a dull, insipid thing is a billet-doux written in cold blood, after the heat of the business is over! 在生意最红火的时候过去了，再用冷冰冰的笔墨写一封情书，是多么枯燥无味的事啊! -- George Etherege 乔治爵士
The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. 这种感觉的基础是胃的窝。 -- Alfred Edward Housman 豪斯曼