The novel is the book of life. In this sense, the Bible is a great confused novel. You may say, it is about God. But it is really about man alive.

The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, cannot be satisfied by economic activity alone.

I want my work to hold contradictions.

We must balance economic growth with environmental responsibility.

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

我不知道是妈妈对，还是丹中尉对，我不知道，是否我们每个人都有，注定的命运，还是我们的生命中只有偶然，像在风中飘。但我想：也许两者都有吧，也许两者都在同时发生着。

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.