As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

-- Margaret Mead 玛格丽特·米德

任何一个成年人，只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样，可以变得内省，唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春，他就迷失了。

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We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

我们有剧本，有演员，我们试着弄清楚这是什么，而你不知道这是什么。你必须对它的未来持开放的态度，而不是去做一件无聊的事情。

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I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

我想向成年人指出的是，现在在这个媒介中，有很多好的材料以漫画的形式提供给你们，并且学会给予你们的支持，因为你们支持的越多，这些材料出来的时候就会越好。

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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

我们在智力上天生就是婴儿，这对我们来说是件好事。如果我们能听懂母亲对婴儿所说的话和所做的事的一半，我们就会对自己的重要性充满自负，这种自负会使我们一生都无法忍受。

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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

一个非小说作家在他或她面前有一个人物的形状，并不断完善它。一部非小说作品并不像小说作品那么难写，但它最终并没有那么令人满意。

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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

我从事实和推理中得出我的意见，我的意见只适合我自己。如果人们不喜欢我的观点，那也没什么区别，因为我不征求他们的意见或投票。

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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

但是长话短说，我开始做单口相声不是因为我想做一个电视节目，或者成为一名演员，甚至想写喜剧小品。我喜欢单口喜剧是因为我喜欢单口喜剧。

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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

世界上有两种老师:一种老师会用大量的鹌鹑炮弹把你打得动弹不得;另一种老师只会在你身后捅你一下，你就能跳到天上。

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In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

在我们家，母亲节是每天。父亲节。在我们家里，父母也算数。他们做重要的工作，而这些工作很重要。一天对我们不合适。

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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

我父亲是哈佛大学化学系的教员;我母亲在结婚前读了一年的物理研究生。

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Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

人不可自以为行恶就可以得善报，反害自己的性命。对他自己的邪恶影响是肯定的。

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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

风格是现代艺术家最宝贵的资产。这可能就是为什么每年有这么多的款式被报告丢失或被盗的原因。

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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

幽默有很多种，有些是讽刺的，有些是自省的。内省更适合我的性格。

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If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

如果你回顾一下所有你喜欢的老师，我相信你会发现他们非常有趣。

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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

人类是一种最奇特的生物。他认为他有一个灵魂，而他有几十个。

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

我很久以前就不爱我父亲了。剩下的是对一种模式的奴役。

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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

我的父亲，上帝保佑他，是个音乐家。他的父亲认为他的音乐是垃圾。

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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

我的父母是表亲。这就足以解释我所有的怪癖了。

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But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.

但是在我决定做什么之前，我的脑子里有一个想法。

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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

我过去以卖家具为生。问题是，这是我自己的。

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I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

我说了很多关于我年龄的谎言，我都不知道我自己多大了。

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If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there.

如果你不知道你要去哪里，任何一条路都会把你带到那里。

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I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

我老了，都不买青香蕉了。

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But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

但我不认为我已经成长为一个受损的成年人。

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What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

我们不能理解的东西，我们可以使它变得有意义。

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Too much has been given and too much has been lost.

付出太多，失去太多。

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The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

世界选择去想它所想的。

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I'm an introspective dude.

我是个内省的人。

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We become what we do.

我们做什么就成为什么。

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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

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