That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

The novel is not just a mirror to the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

Success comes when preparation meets opportunity.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires， rather than in attempting to satisfy them.