A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

书是一面镜子:如果一只猿猴往里看,使徒几乎不可能往外看。

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I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

我过去常常把我的问题归咎于别人。但我清醒的那一刻,如果你想这么说的话,是有一天我看着镜子里的自己,突然哭了起来。我不仅看起来很糟糕,而且我知道我的问题出在我自己身上。

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

大多数普通的超级英雄书籍都是为永恒而设计的;当然,他们中很少有人这样做,但关键是,他们试图把泥巴扔到墙上,希望它能粘上,结果大部分都滑掉了。

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

朋友唯一能给你的,就是给你一面镜子,让你看到自己高贵的一面。

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

我到处寻找休息的地方,除了一个人坐在角落里拿着一本小书外,什么也没有找到。

Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.

书是通往其他维度的大门,在那里一切皆有可能,没有什么是被禁止的。

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

我想写一本奇怪的书,重建我独立的小出版社的根基。