"La verdadera patria del escritor es su lengua."
作家真正的祖国是他的语言。
The individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting.
——2006年在西雅图市演讲
民主是最糟糕的政府形式,除了所有其他时不时被尝试过的形式。
谁知旧日情,斯人知太深。绵绵长怀恨,尽在不言中。
20年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟,20年的婚姻使女人变成一座公共建筑。