The novel is the art of making the impossible believable.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, whose existence is structured by the principle of being.

Every exhibition is a temporary monument to a particular moment in time.

没钱不要到人前去，遭难就别去寻亲探友。