唯一受过教育的人是学会了如何学习和改变的人。

每一粒麦子都承载着一段历史，但谁会倾听？

真正的作家是能够用文字触动读者灵魂的人。

永远保持好奇心。你停止学习的那一刻，就是你停止成长的那一刻。

小说中的每个角色都是对人性的某种实验。

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The best art is the art that makes you see the world differently.