"Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even."

The novel is an art form that is always in crisis, always on the verge of disappearing, and that's what keeps it alive.

We made gods of men and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful.

Man is his choices.

I'm not a pessimist. I'm an optimist trained in realism.

如果名分不正理论上便讲不通，理论上讲不通，事情便办不成；……因此，君子给某种事物起名字时，就一定要在理论上讲得通，在实践上就一定能行得通。