What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

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We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

我们期望我们的领导人像上帝一样。但我觉得,当人们试图把领导力神圣化时,它就超出了普通人的范围。这就是最伟大的领导人来自人民的地方。

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

不是漫画迷,而是置身其中,看到极端——这是非常严肃的。所以我试着尽可能多地学习,这样我就不会那么刻薄了。

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions…

大脑的精神直接与睾丸相连。这就是为什么那些厌倦了书本想象的人不太适合生育的原因。

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

我经常阅读英文译本,也经常和我的翻译交谈,比如关于名字的问题。我总是要批准它。

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

一本好书应该给你留下丰富的经验,让你略显疲惫。读这本书的时候,你应该多活几辈子。

The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it.

世界上最有才华的作家是生活本身,我的书是我在生活中所读到的另一种情景。

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

书不是用来做家具的,但是没有什么比书更能装饰一所房子了。

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

为了其他的幸福而牺牲健康是最大的愚蠢。

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

一个作家每天都会死一点,其中之一就是他的书绝版。

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

再见,鳄鱼。过了一会儿,鳄鱼。