"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
我认为小说家的任务是让熟悉的事物变得陌生，让陌生的事物变得熟悉。
"Reading is the gateway to imagination."
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
快乐的最好方法是活出真实的自己。
衡量一个人的标准是他如何运用权力。