The writer's task is to name the unnameable.

书籍是反映我们欲望的镜子。

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.

民主是一种机制，确保我们得到的治理不会比我们应得的更好。

Sometimes a thing is broken and cannot be put back together.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.

你做什么，你就是什么。不是你说什么，不是你相信什么，不是你如何投票，而是你把时间花在什么地方。

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Growth comes from taking calculated risks, not from playing it safe.