The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

预言是人类唯一一项无法经由练习而改善的技术。

"To create is to resist death."

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

历史不仅仅是关于过去；它是关于我们如何理解现在并塑造未来。