没有阴影就没有阳光，了解夜晚是必要的。

I don't sing to be perfect, I sing to be alive.

摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是向它屈服。

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

The idea of justice is not the same as the idea of law.

The novel is a mirror carried along a high road.