一本书是作者和读者穿越时间的亲密对话。
译文：不要因为小小的隔阂就疏远至亲好友，不要因为就近的过节而忘记过去的大恩。赏析：人与人相处总会有这样或那样的误会和矛盾，有误会和矛盾应该及时沟通，采取合理的方式解决，不能心生嫌隙，从而远离亲朋好友。
艺术家并不重要。只有他创造的东西才重要。
"Complexity theory teaches us that not all problems are created equal; some are inherently harder than others."
写作的行为是一种抵抗的行为。
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."