最终，一个理论的价值不在于它的复杂性，而在于它解释和预测的能力。
In the end, the value of a theory is not in its complexity, but in its ability to explain and predict.
The first sentence of the novel is the most important, but the last sentence is the one that stays with you.
The greatest happiness which can happen to any country is the taking of the supreme power out of the hands of the governing few and putting it into the hands of the governed many.
"The more you try to escape, the more you are trapped."
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.
