故事是作者写给自己的信，用来告诉自己那些无法通过其他方式发现的事情。
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
我必须研究政治和战争，以便我的儿子们可以自由地研究数学和哲学。
保持对知识的渴望，你将永远不会缺乏机会。
Literature is the art of making the invisible visible.
想要成为别人是对自己的一种浪费。
真相是一件美丽而可怕的事情，因此应该非常谨慎地对待。
I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.