知识分子中最大的一些身份错乱就是他们很难记得住自己不是上帝。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一个建构的物体，一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。

我们不是靠运气，而是靠勤奋和智慧走到今天的。

The novel is an artifact that, like a bomb, can explode in the reader's consciousness.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.