小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一个建构的物体，一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。
A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
作家的职责是讲述可怕的真相，而读者的职责是从中学习。
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteencenturies, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?（From Jane Lampton Clemens）
Don't just follow the market—shape it.
哲学的本质不是拥有真理，而是寻找真理。