小说是一个伟大的发现:远比伽利略的望远镜或别人的无线电报更伟大。小说是人类迄今为止达到的最高表达形式。为什么?因为它是如此无法达到绝对。
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
你喜欢他是因为他是个迷失的男孩。相信我,我知道。迷失的男孩很容易让人爱上。
只有那些冒险走得太远的人才能发现一个人能走多远。
A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.