"The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool from his friends."
The power of literature lies in its ability to transport us to other worlds, to make us see the world through the eyes of others.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
最伟大的文学作品是那些将美与实用结合的作品。
The unexamined life is not worth living.
我天生不是一个政治人物。我不认为作家应该是政治人物。但在南非，你无法将政治排除在你的生活之外。
爱是一种冒险，但值得一试。
The purpose of statistical methods is to provide a rational basis for drawing conclusions from data.
统计方法的目的是为从数据中得出结论提供合理的基础。