I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

  • -- Richard Russo 理查德·罗素

我想要的是那些在书中占据相同领域的搞笑和令人心碎的东西,因为我认为它们在生活中经常占据相同的领域,就像我们试图把它们分开一样。

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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

我不知道编辑们会怎么看,也不知道他们会怎么接受。但在某种程度上,我希望下一本书,当人们拿起来读的时候,能把他们吓得魂飞魄散。

My children love my mother, and i tell my children " that is not the same woman i grew up with... That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now."

我的孩子们爱我的母亲,我告诉我的孩子们:“这不是和我一起长大的那个女人……那是一个老妇人现在正试图进入天堂。”

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

如果我们现在让深夜脱口秀主持人承担与政客或牧师同样的道德责任,我就出局了。我走了。

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.

我保留旧书,因为它们教会了我一些东西;从新的我学到的很少。

That feeling you get when you know it's not the same anymore.

当你知道一切都不一样的时候,那种感觉就会油然而生。

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself.

不要想太多,你只会伤害自己。