Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The novel is a machine for generating meaning.

凡是陽性必刚强，刚强一定光明，光明则容易了解。凡是陰性必柔弱，柔弱一定陰暗，陰暗则难以预测。

文学是一种抵抗的形式，是对不公正说不并寻求真理的方式。