小说是一面镜子，不仅反映作者的灵魂，也反映读者的灵魂。
The personal is historical, and the historical is personal.
小人专门期望他人的恩惠，但受恩后就忘；君子则不轻易受人恩惠，若受恩于人，则必定想法图报。
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.