The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
小说是将私人公开化、将个人普遍化的艺术。
Every person must have a thought that changes them, or a book, or a word, or a moment; and if they don't, their life is wasted.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Always ask: How can we do better? Then act on the answer.
To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip， have a bag of their favorite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave.
I write to understand, to make sense of the world and my place in it.
Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall.
Money can buy comfort, but not the deeper satisfactions of life.