一个常见的经验是，一个晚上难以解决的问题在睡眠委员会工作后，在早上得到了解决。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

People can be divided into these types: strangers, acquaintances, familiar people, friends, and close friends. True friendship isn't about compliments to your face, but whether you're mentioned when they talk about friends behind your back.

"The writer is a man who is always searching for the right word, the perfect word, the word that will make the reader see what he sees, feel what he feels, understand what he understands."

过去是一个异国他乡；那里的人们做事方式不同。

文明是一条有岸的河流。河流有时充满了人们杀戮、偷窃、喊叫和做历史学家通常记录的事情的血，而在岸上，不被注意，人们建造家园，做爱，抚养孩子，唱歌，写诗，甚至雕刻雕像。文明的故事是发生在岸上的故事。