作家是一个必须生活在世界上但不属于它的人。

政治语言旨在使谎言听起来真实，使谋杀显得可敬，给纯粹的空气以坚实的外表。

译文：有才能而没有权势，即使是贤人也不能制服不肖之徒。所以把一尺长的木材树立在高山之上，就能俯瞰万丈深渊，这并不是木材长，而是因为它所处的位置高。

我真的不考虑年龄。我认为人的年龄取决于他们的感受和行为。

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

"The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives."

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

To write is to resist the erasure of history.