The novel is the great art form of lying to tell the truth.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

所有好书都有一个共同点——它们比真实发生的事更真实。

The whole is different from the sum of its parts.

Writing is a way of preserving the truth of the past.

我认为能够自嘲是很重要的。

文化形成的过程部分是对世界的理解过程，部分是在其中学习如何行为的过程。