Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken

I wanted to be able to tell the truth without ever needing to worry about the facts.（真相与事实）

“I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win.”（想起V字仇杀队里的一句台词：思想刀枪不入）

As C.S. Lewis reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.

Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath resistant, solar operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them.（实体书之所以存在）

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Political movements, personal movements, all begin with people imagining another way of existing.（抗争源于质疑）

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort.（或许会有人因为一个故事去追寻完全不同的人生）

You see, while I loved Tolkien and while I wished to have written his book, I had no desire at all to write like him. Tolkien’s words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. （花式赞美托尔金）

eventually I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end.

In a musical the plot exists to allow you to get from song to song and to stop all the songs from happening at once. So with a porn film.（音乐剧与色情片的类比，妙啊！）

Dunsany was one of the great originals. His prose voice resonated like an oriental retelling of the King James Bible. He told stories of strange little gods of faraway lands, of visits to dream-lands, of people with odd, but perfectly apt names: always with a slight amused detachment. Many of the stories you’ll find in this anthology, like “Hypnos,” or “The Quest of Iranon,” are vaguely Dunsanyish in tone（谈起邓萨尼勋爵）

Once upon a time, Orpheus brought Eurydice back alive from Hades. But that is not the version of the tale that has survived.（你听到的或许只是被流传下来的版本）

One day, very soon now, the journalist will stop bothering with hats, and decide to buy a black leather jacket instead.（经典着装的由来，附图）

与挚友普拉切特（左）合影

some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside.（哈哈这个我知道！tardis！）

It took me longer to learn that you can say no. And it’s an easy thing to say. It helps define your boundaries.（拒绝的价值）

Things can mean more than they literally mean. And that’s the dividing line between art and everything that isn’t art. Or one of the lines, anyway.（艺术之所以为艺术）

The more you know, the harder it is to appreciate the things that once gave you joy.（洞悉的代价）

It’s an animal story for anyone who has ever had, or wanted, a pet—or a human story for any animal that has ever wanted a person.（这句话太可爱了我一定要摘录下来！）

If you see Amanda Palmer on the street, kill her, said the graffiti under the bridge in Boston. And beneath that somebody else wrote, That way she’ll live forever.（音乐专辑《Who Killed Amanda Palmer》）

I would, of course, be happy if Stardust met with a similar fate, if it continued to be retold long after its author was forgotten, if people forgot that it had once been a book and began their tales of the boy who set out to find the fallen star with “Once upon a time,” and finished with “Happily ever after.”（“愿我的故事比我的存在更长久”）