我们是生存机器——盲目编程的机器人载体，目的是保存被称为基因的自私分子。
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
小说是一场跨越时间的对话。
Every intervention should leave things better than we found them.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
译文：世俗人的感情好比一张张纸，张张都是一样薄；人世间的事情好比一盘棋，一局更比一局新。赏析：人生坎坷不平，命运沉浮变化。世态炎凉如冰，人情淡薄似纸，不过是常态而已。我们唯有学会以平常心生存，才能在得意时不张扬，失意时不消沉。