音乐表达无法言说之事，安抚心灵并给予休息。

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

——〈临时大总统誓词〉，1912年1月1日

小说的力量在于它能让我们感到不那么孤独。