In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.

一本书就像你随身携带的花园。

Culture does not decline by being repressed； it declines by being trivialized.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

小说是最民主的艺术形式，因为它既属于作家，也属于读者。