The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.

Free trade enables the most advantageous distribution of the national produce and revenue.

Life is about the journey, not the destination.

I was no good at art, so I thought I'd better be an artist.

Those whose words and deeds are inconsistent are often not respected.

Peace is not just the absence of war, but the establishment of a stable, just, and sustainable international order.

Literature is a way to understand the world, to make sense of the chaos, to find meaning in the meaningless.

在一个不自由的世界里，唯一的应对方式是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。