我认为我成为作家的原因在于，我对现实世界与理想世界之间的差距深感兴趣。
阅非为抵驳亦非舌簧；览不为胡诌而为衡虑。
"Cada livro é uma porta para um novo mundo, uma nova experiência."
对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。
Thought is the servant of action, and action is the servant of survival.
"Writing is a way of making sense of the world and my place in it."
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.