战争是一场悲剧，但有时是必要的。

Memory is a tricky thing. It doesn't just recall events, it reshapes them.

最好的书是那些告诉你你已经知道的东西的书。

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

"The world is a brutal place. My books reflect that."

我不等待机会，我创造机会。

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

可持续性不是一种选择；它是我们对下一代的责任。