The most basic human desire is to be recognized as a human being, and the most basic human fear is to be treated as less than human.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

还有什么地牢比自己的心更黑暗！还有什么狱卒比自己更无情！

译文：亲近贤臣，疏远小人，这是西汉兴盛的原因;亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是东汉衰败的原因。

Literature is the art of giving form to chaos.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

艺术应该是关于提出问题，而不是给出答案。

"The power of a novel lies not in its plot, but in its ability to evoke emotions that resonate with the reader's own experiences."

孩子不是涂色本，你不能随心所欲填上自己喜欢的颜色。