小说的终极目标是创造一个比现实本身更真实的世界。

My life is an unfinished song.

【解释】仁慈的人爱人，有礼貌的人尊敬人，爱别人的人，别人也会爱他；尊敬别人的人，别人也会尊敬他。

我们加工的每一桶油都必须承载我们的环境责任。

So, I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach. Well, I can’t tell you what that’s done for me. It’s made life more fun. It’s made me more constructive. It’s made me more helpful to others. It’s made me enormously rich.

The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.

"A good book is a friend that never lets you down."