"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

小说是一面反映人性复杂性的镜子。

"A novel is a world you can hold in your hands."

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

制造链式反应机器的基本点当然是确保每次裂变产生一定数量的中子，其中一些中子将再次产生裂变。

真正的作家是用心写作的人。

Mom always has the softest place in my heart.

"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

译文：只要把握现在，做好当下的事情，不要管将来会有什么样的结果。