小说是所有艺术形式中最民主的，因为它只依赖于读者的想象力。
The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.
出自先秦《荀子·非十二子》。不被荣誉所诱惑，不为诽谤中伤之言所吓倒。说明不求虚荣、不做亏德之事，自然可以堂堂正正、问心无愧地做人。
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
We must listen to the whispers of the ancestors, for they hold the wisdom of the ages.
