The most powerful art is the one that doesn’t try to be powerful.

作家必须成为他的阶级、国家、宗教的叛徒——除了他的良心。

The real challenge is not to build a cheap house, but to build a house that is cheap to live in.

成功没有捷径，只有脚踏实地才能走得更远。

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

作家的使命是揭露隐藏的事物。