A great novel is one that refuses to be reduced to a single meaning.

"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

我不介意成为一个象征，但我不想成为一个纪念碑。这是有区别的。

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.