The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

"In every character, there is a piece of the writer, a piece of the director, and a piece of the actor. It's a collaboration of souls."

建筑不是关于风格，而是关于实质。

Los silencios dicen más que las palabras, pero hay que saber escucharlos.

你的工作将占据生活的一大部分，真正满意的唯一方法是做你认为伟大的工作。

强调历史研究既要理解历史背景，又要保持学术批判性。

If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

I am not a storyteller, but a story-maker.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.