自由不是任何人可以给予的东西。自由是人们夺取的东西，人们有多自由取决于他们想要多自由。

La novela es un espejo que refleja la sociedad, con todas sus luces y sombras.

可以依赖的激情是恐惧。

生存不是无所畏惧。它是关于做出决定，继续前进并去做，因为你必须这样做。

教学是我最伟大的艺术作品。

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

写作是面对过去的幽灵和未来的不确定性。