——辛格1978年诺贝尔文学奖获奖演说

语言不仅仅是符号系统，还是具有社会和文化重要性的一组实践。

"我不是一个人，我是一种语言。"

心灵的能量是生命的本质。

The novel is the most complete form of human expression.

将每个困难分解为尽可能多且必要的部分来解决它。

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。

Literature is the art of expressing the inexpressible.