The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

海洋是各国共同的高速公路。

小说是人类发现的微妙相互关系的最高范例。

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

我想这就像泰坦尼克号。冰山是真的，但船只是一艘船。

"A character in a novel has more freedom than his creator - this is the irony that sustains my writing."

I hope to always be number one, but maintaining this level is quite a challenge.