小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一面反映人类存在复杂性的镜子。

文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。

Sustainable fishing isn't an option—it's the only way forward.

——《在东京留日三团体欢迎会的演说》（1913年3月1日）

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

I don’t let pressure break me, I let it make me.