"文学的力量在于它能够触动人心，改变思想。"

有田不耕仓库就会空虚，有书不读子孙就会愚笨。

The highest goal of art is to create harmony between man and his environment.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.