小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.
The smell of fresh bread is the universal language of comfort.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
一本书是作者与读者之间跨越时空的对话。
"Words have weight, and stories have gravity."
If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.