The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question.

The balance of power is the only way to maintain peace in the international system.

The novel is the art of the unfinished, the unresolved.

成为作家的唯一方法就是写作。

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."

最平凡的生活中充满了非凡的瞬间。

我不是一个喜欢回头看的人。我总是向前看。