选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·申韩》。从事治学的人，需要广泛的阅读，并且需要从中吸取正确、有用的内容。

写作的行为是一种反叛的行为。

唯一让生活成为可能的，是永久且难以忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。

Laughing is good for you if you don't kill yourself.

最好的报复就是巨大的成功。

Every ton of coal we extract carries equal weight in responsibility.

To be a writer is to be a spy on life.

The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.