灵魂的快乐在于行动。

作家的任务是面对存在的混乱，并在其中找到某种秩序。

你祈求下雨，你也得处理泥泞。这是其中的一部分。

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

To write is to leave a trace, to make a mark on the world.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

生存，还是毁灭，这正是问题所在。

"The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things."

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one.