历史既没有愿望也没有能力使人变得更好或更坏；它仅仅记录了他们曾经是什么以及他们做了什么。

"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road."

"The best stories are the ones that surprise the writer as much as the reader."

"There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best."

行不义之事永远不正当，不能以恶报恶，遭受恶行时也不可通过作恶来自我防卫。

真正的文学应该能够改变读者的生活。

写作是斗争和抵抗；写作是成为；写作是绘制尚未被探索的世界地图。