The power of literature lies in its ability to disturb, to question, to undermine what is taken for granted.
文学的力量在于它能够扰乱、质疑、颠覆那些被视为理所当然的东西。
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
最大的自由是选择自己思想的自由。
预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来。
每张脸都隐藏着一个故事，每个故事都隐藏着一张脸。
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
阅读的艺术在很大程度上是从书中与生活的相遇中获得更好的理解。