小说的力量不在于其情节，而在于其唤起与读者自身经历共鸣的情感的能力。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

The success of an enterprise cannot be achieved without accurate judgment of the future and seizing opportunities.