"Literature should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."
故事的力量在于它能够将我们与普遍的人类经验联系起来。
The best thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
The world is a mirror, and we see in it what we are.
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else."
阅读是一种祈祷形式，一种引导冥想，让我们短暂地相信自己变成了另一个人。
最好的领导者是那些多听少说的人。