A good novel should be both a mirror and a window.
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
文學(xué)教會我們用另一種眼光看世界，用另一種方式理解它。
"Literature has the power to transcend time and space, connecting us to the thoughts and feelings of people from different eras and cultures."
生命短暫，珍惜每一刻。
大海的聲音是誘人的，永不停止，低語，喧嘩，低語，邀請靈魂在孤獨的深淵中徘徊。
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life, and not when I had come to die, Discover that I had not lived.