小说是一个伟大的发现：远比伽利略的望远镜或别人的无线电报更伟大。
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless.
To write is to resist the erosion of time.
我一直知道我会变得富有。我想我从来没有怀疑过这一点。
"The marks humans leave are too often scars."
The poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.