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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

人们说，如果你发现水涨到脚踝，那就该做点什么了，而不是当水涨到脖子上的时候。

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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

我觉得有时候我的幽默非常枯燥，很多时候我会说一些我认为很有趣的事情，但是……我有一个名声——人们认为我是一个非常原教旨主义者，缺乏幽默感的人。

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Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

作为一个词曲作者，在歌曲中使用“爱”这个词是很危险的。这个词以前在歌曲中出现过数百万次，是最受欢迎的话题。

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Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.

科布必须一直在我的球队打中锋。但是这将把演讲者置于什么位置呢?在离开了。如果我同时拥有这两种能力，我肯定会这样做。

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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

上升的天才总是从云中射出光芒，但当它上升到稳定的光泽时，这些光芒就会逐渐消失。

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I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

我支持华尔街占领者。但当他们发现我向孩子们出售打包的抵押贷款违约工具时，他们会接受我吗?

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People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

人们总是说，你永远不会知道爱，直到你有了自己的孩子，所有这一切都是真的。

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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

在山顶上，你能找到的唯一的禅，就是你带到那里的禅。

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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

早起的男人是好丈夫，坏丈夫。

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