死者从未远离我们。他们在我们心中，在我们脑海里，在我们周围。
A writer’s life is a life of interruptions.
作家的生活是一种不断被打断的生活。
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
过去是一个装满光的橱柜，你只需要找到打开门的钥匙。
The facts of life are very simple, but the stories we tell about them are very complicated.
生活的真相很简单，但我们讲述的故事却非常复杂。
The present is always changing, but the past is fixed.
当下总是在变，但过去是固定的。
You don’t get on by being original. You get on by being quiet and by stepping gently sideways.
你不是靠标新立异获得成功。你是靠保持沉默和小心翼翼地侧身而行。
The dead are invisible, but they are not absent.
死者虽不可见，但他们并未缺席。
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.
The past is not dead. It is not even past.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
世界上充满了显而易见的事物，但没有人注意到它们。
The dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.