It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world., sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. It may make man better able to endure evil, but the evil remains.

A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

我们创造的每一件作品都承载着我们价值观和对世界的愿景的一部分。