我不知道是妈妈对，还是丹中尉对，我不知道，是否我们每个人都有，注定的命运，还是我们的生命中只有偶然，像在风中飘。但我想：也许两者都有吧，也许两者都在同时发生着。
I don't know if Mama was right or if it...it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know... if we each have a... destiny... or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze... but I...I think... maybe it's both. Maybe both get happening at the same time.
真正的作家永远是一个流亡者，即使在自己的国家也是如此。
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."