You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

"Great lives are like great novels - they have plot twists, character development, and moments of sheer poetry."

杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访

The act of reading is an act of rebellion against the limits of time and space.

"The role of literature is to make the world more complex, not to simplify it."

在这个世界上，你无法选择是否受到伤害，但你可以选择由谁来伤害你。