小说是伟大的现代史诗，因为它可以容纳一切：诗歌、历史、哲学、政治。

"Memory is a sort of punishment for those who have survived."

我远行万里来看世界的奇迹，但真正让我惊讶的是我在旅途中遇到的人。

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

We are all bit-part actors in each other's lives.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it.