Literature is the art of giving form to the formless.
文学是赋予无形以形式的艺术。
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
I'm not a prophet, I'm a messenger.
Writing is a way of fighting against oblivion, against death.