小说是将私人公开化、将个人普遍化的艺术。
The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
小说是一种思考世界的方式，一种理解世界的方式。
陌生人是群体本身的一个元素，与穷人和各种“内部敌人”并无不同——一个在群体中的成员身份既涉及在其外部又涉及面对它的元素。
We are all self-righteous hypocrites.
Security is always excessive until it's not enough.
The greatest happiness is to despise what deserves to be despised.
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
世界上没有什么比笑声和好心情更具感染力了。