To write is to confront the void.
"A good novel should unsettle you, make you question what you thought you knew."
The secret of happiness is to expand your interests as much as possible and to be as kind as possible to the people and things that interest you.
没有人会发动战争——或者说,理智的人不应该这样做——除非他首先清楚自己希望通过战争实现什么目标以及如何指挥战争。
The world is a great clock, and we are the hands.