小说的力量不在于其情节,而在于其唤起与读者自身经历共鸣的情感的能力。
写作就是直面我们内心的未知。
棋盘是世界;棋子是宇宙万象;棋局规则便是我们所谓的自然法则。
"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."