“You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”
生きて行こうとさえ思えば、どこだって天国になるわ。だって、生きているんですもの。幸せになるチャンスはどこにでもあるわ。太陽と月と地球がある限り、大丈夫。
“What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he’s so ignorant? Well, he doesn’t really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, ‘I can figure this out.’ Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.”
たとえばきみは何のために生きているのかと訊かれたら、ぼくは念のためだと答えるだろう。人が生きている理由なんてその程度のものだし、ぼくが生きている理由もその程度のものだし、大抵の人はその程度のものなのだ。