应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

中国的崛起和俄罗斯的复兴挑战了自由民主是唯一可行的政府形式的观念。

To write is to betray, to betray is to survive.

Literature is a fire that burns within us, a fire that consumes and purifies, a fire that illuminates and warms.

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."