The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.

最好的书为读者的想象力留出空间。