一个人的工作不过是通过艺术的迂回，重新发现那两三个伟大而简单的形象，在这些形象面前，他的心第一次敞开了。
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.
文学的本质在于捕捉人类存在的短暂瞬间，并通过文字赋予它们永恒。
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.