The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

人体有两个末端:一个用来创造,另一个用来坐着。有时人们会适得其反。当这种情况发生时,他们需要从裤子的座位上踢一下。

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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

有时我用肉毒杆菌。与大多数人相比,我很少使用它。不过,有一次我做得太多了。如果我不能移动我的脸,我觉得很奇怪,有一次我做得太过火了,我感觉被自己的皮肤困住了。

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

无论冰盖是融化,还是膨胀——无论发生什么——人类活动导致的全球变暖理论家们声称,这证实了他们的理论。一个像占星术这样的伪科学的完美例子。

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

信仰是逃避责任的最佳借口,是逃避思考和评估证据的最佳借口。信仰就是尽管缺乏证据,甚至可能因为缺乏证据而产生的信仰。

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

我永远无法用我所拥有的时间从头开始创建一个预算,但是我的指示是一样的:给我一个没有新收入的预算。

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

民有、民享、民享。我一听到就崩溃了;我说,一把一把的,一把一把的,因为这就是真正发生的事情。

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

我在艺术和建筑中经历的过程,我实际上想让它几乎像孩子一样。有时候我觉得这很神奇。

The ones who feel the need to impress you, are usually the ones who are already impressed by you.

那些觉得有必要给你留下深刻印象的人,通常是那些已经对你印象深刻的人。

specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

他们正在研究的样本是人类的生命,这就是为什么我要这么做,这就是为什么我喜欢它。

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

信念就像其他移动的身体一样,遵循着阻力最小的路径。

Normal people do not create art.

普通人不创造艺术。