"A writer must be a thief of lives."
作家必须是生命的窃贼。
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."