The writer is the enemy of all dictatorships, whether of the left or of the right.
作家是所有独裁的敌人，无论是左翼还是右翼。
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
What we have to do is find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
"Success is nothing without someone to share it with."
The metropolis exacts from man as a discriminating creature a different amount of consciousness than does rural life.
The mind is a place of its own which in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
I don't care what you say about me as long as it's not true.
The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.