世界是一个伟大的时钟，我们是其中的指针。
The world is a great clock, and we are the hands.
To be a writer is to accept that you will always be alone with your thoughts.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
文学的力量在于它能够揭示人性的复杂性，而不仅仅是描述事件。