文学是火；它意味着不墨守成规和反叛。

The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.

也许每一个男子全都有过这样的两个女人，至少两个。娶了红玫瑰，久而久之，红的变了墙上的一抹蚊子血，白的还是"床前明月光"；娶了白玫瑰，白的便是衣服上沾的一粒饭黏子，红的却是心口上一颗朱砂痣。

To write is to resist the erasure of memory.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

The existence of a legal system presupposes the existence of a rule of recognition.

我还没有达到我想要的目标，但我已经不在原来的地方了。