作家的职责是讲述那些别人宁愿忽视的不舒服的真相。

The city is a living thing, always changing, always the same.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers， both when they are right and when they are wrong， are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men， who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence， are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

"Writing is my way of screaming without making noise."

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.