Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
艺术不是反映现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。
To write is to resist forgetting.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
The best architecture is invisible; it becomes part of life.
