The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

好的小说告诉我们角色的真相；伟大的小说告诉我们自己的真相。

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

当我写作时，我的目标不是纽约，而是堪萨斯州以东一个模糊的地方。