每个人对自己劳动的产权既是所有其他产权的最初基础，也是最神圣和不可侵犯的。

一个人不能欺骗任何人，甚至不能欺骗世界的胜利。

写作的行为是对生活荒谬性的一种抵抗。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

真正的恐怖是某天早上醒来，发现你的高中同学在管理国家。