The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.
书是一面镜子：如果一只猿猴往里看，不太可能有一位使徒往外看。
The writer's duty is to tell the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
作家的职责是说出真相，即使这让人感到不适。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
文学是发现普通人身上非凡之处的艺术，用普通的话语说出非凡的事情。
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
唯一真正的发现之旅不在于寻找新的风景，而在于拥有新的眼光。
To write is to rewrite, and to rewrite is to understand.
真相并不总是美丽的，美丽的话语也不一定是真相。
Every story is a lie, but some lies are truer than others.
每个故事都是谎言，但有些谎言比其他谎言更真实。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个异国；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
Writing is a way of exorcising the demons that haunt us.
写作是一种驱赶困扰我们的恶魔的方式。
"We are all broken, but it is in the cracks that the light gets in."