A novel is a conversation between the writer and the reader.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

The truth is a matter of the imagination.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

历史不会重复，但它会以不同的形式重现。