"In the end, we are all just trying to make sense of the madness around us."

The novel is the most complete representation of human experience.

We are all fragments, not only of ourselves but of each other.

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.

首先他们无视于你，而后是嘲笑你，接着是批斗你，再来就是你的胜利之日。

渔民的智慧不在于他捕获了多少，而在于他留下了多少。