独裁和真正的文学是不相容的。作家是独裁的天敌。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
唯一真正的监狱是恐惧，唯一真正的自由是从恐惧中解脱。
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。
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it.
成为诗人意味着拥有一个如此敏锐的灵魂，以至于没有任何品质的细微差别能逃过它的察觉。
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
最终，我们记住的不是敌人的话语，而是朋友的沉默。
The writer's duty is to tell the truth, even when it is inconvenient.
作家的职责是说出真相，即使在不便的时候。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
过去是一个异国，那里的人们做事方式不同。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.