我认为能够轻松对待自己是很重要的。
The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.
——晚年访谈
释义：世上的许多人为了利益，不惜冒生命危险，甚至到了无路可退的地步也不愿放弃。
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
The future belongs to those who can make leather without leaving scars—on the earth or its people.