小说是一种思考方式，而不仅仅是一种讲故事的方式。

I'm not a product of my environment. My environment is a product of me.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We don’t remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. To remember is to remake, to reimagine."

创新不仅仅是创造新事物；它关乎改进已有的事物。