My past doesn't define me, it refines me.

The world is all that is the case.

摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是向它屈服。

A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

译文：听别人说不如亲眼看看，远远观望不如凑近细查。