I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.

"Sometimes I think that the only thing that connects us to the past is the present. Without the present, the past would be lost forever."

The true monument is not the building, but the memory it leaves behind.

过去从未真正消失；它在我们讲述的故事中继续存在。

The mind is a stream of processes, not a collection of objects.

伟大的领导者不创造追随者，他们创造更多的领导者。