生活似乎是用一种焦虑代替另一种焦虑，用一种欲望代替另一种欲望的过程。

预测未来的唯一方法就是创造未来。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

在阿拉伯世界，小说不仅是艺术，更是一种社会责任的承担。