In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Life is so much easier when you don’t have to pretend to be someone else.

每一部小说都是举向社会的一面镜子，映照出它的美与缺陷。

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

安全困境是国际政治的一个基本特征，因为国家增加自身安全的努力往往会降低其他国家的安全。

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

译文：厚道的人不去做损害、诋毁别人的事来使自己得益，仁义的人不危害别人而为自己求取名誉。