"Every story is a journey, and every journey is a story."

一个民族的文化是一组文本的集合，而这些文本本身也是集合，人类学家努力从这些文本的真正拥有者的肩膀上方去阅读它们。

意识是一个过程，而非物质。

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

最好的文学源于冲突，源于欲望与道德之间的斗争。

"To understand a society, look at its trash."

处理一个不自由的世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。