那些许诺我们人间天堂的人除了地狱什么都没有搞出来。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.

写作是一种抵抗，是保持一个民族的记忆和身份的方式。

A writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, to challenge the status quo.

"The artist must be the conscience of his time."

艺术是认识世界的一种方式。