"The world is a brutal place. My books reflect that."

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.

希腊人理解事物隐藏面的神秘力量。他们留给我们语言中最美丽的词之一——"enthusiasm"——en theos——内在的神。

The friendship of a gentleman is light as water; the friendship of a small person is sweet as honey.