"The act of reading is an act of empathy, of seeing the world through someone else's eyes."

The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the historical process.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

写作的艺术在于描述世界如其所是，同时如其所可能是。

我不随波逐流，我引领潮流。

我不相信鬼魂，但我总是看到它们。