"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

译文：用钱财交朋友，钱财用完了交情就会断绝；贪美色面结合，到年老色衰时爱情就会消失。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

写作是一种个人自由的形式。它使我们从我们周围正在形成的大众身份中解放出来。

小说是最完整的谎言，讲述最深刻的真理。

The best stories are those that haunt you.

最大的危险是不冒任何风险。