一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回,缓慢地重新发现两三个伟大而简单的形象,在这些形象面前,他的心第一次敞开。
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
我不是一个完美主义者,但我喜欢感觉事情做得很好。
文学和科学相比,的确没什么用处,但文学最大的用处,也许就是它没有用处。