The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it belongs to the reader as much as to the writer.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

美是时间唯一无法伤害的东西。