没有现实的恐惧，文字便无法打动人心。
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
最好的领导方式是展现脆弱。
我只向上帝祈求过一次，一句非常简短的祈祷：'上帝啊，让我的敌人变得可笑吧。' 上帝实现了这个祈愿。
政治语言……是为了让谎言听起来真实，让谋杀显得可敬，给纯粹的空气以坚固的外表。
The first sentence of the novel is the most important, but the last sentence is the one that stays with you.