小说是所有艺术形式中最民主的，因为它只依赖于读者的想象力。

变化是不可避免的，但成长是可选的。

如果说我看得比别人更远些，那是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。

对验证的渴望是可以理解的，但不能总是得到满足。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.