小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。但小说是生命的一本明亮的书。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

通往哲学的第一步是怀疑。

可是我想念你，珍妮。如果你想要什么，我就在你身边。

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.