“ The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. 优秀的、令人钦佩的读者并不认同书中的男孩或女孩,而是认同构思和创作那本书的人。 Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
“ Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge. 仅仅因为一个人上了精英学校和大学,并不会使他比一个靠街头知识长大的人更聪明。 Vikas Swarup 维卡斯·斯瓦卢普
“ He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. 如果一个人对人性知之甚少,除了改变自己的性情之外,什么都不改变,只追求幸福,那么他的一生将浪费在徒劳的努力中。 Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊