"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

译文：在兵败的时候接受任务，在危机患难之间奉行使命，到如今已经有二十一年了。

The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

作家是一个总是试图寻找真相的人，关于他自己的真相，关于世界的真相，关于生活的真相。