我们进步的考验不在于我们为那些拥有很多的人增添更多，而在于我们是否为那些拥有太少的人提供足够。

The novel is the art of the possible, and the possible is always more terrifying than the real.

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."