苏联是一个恐惧的文明，人们生活在持续的对夜间敲门声的恐惧中。

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.

I'm not interested in the rules of perspective. I'm interested in the way we actually see.

"Stories have the power to change how we see ourselves and others."

君子安详而不傲慢，小人傲慢而不安详。

I don’t compete with anyone, I compete with myself.

爱说教的男人通常是伪君子，爱说教的女人必定平庸。