Every great orchestra is a mirror of its society, reflecting both its virtues and its flaws.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
我不是科学,我是艺术。
The art of the novel is to create a world that is more real than reality itself.