"We are bulletproof, but love is not."

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.

我们的政策必须像它们旨在保护的海洋一样充满活力。

你什么时候能给妈长回脸？

人对他自己建筑起堤防来。

In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper. At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art. And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost. And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.

作家的职责是成为他时代的见证人。

现实和虚构的区别？虚构必须合乎逻辑。

A writer must be willing to risk everything for the truth.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it ought to be.

我们利用现有的东西，因为它们有价值

"The best way to forget something is to remember it."