Every story is a mirror of its time.

"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."

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

记着，希望是件好东西，没准儿是件最好的东西，而且从没有一样好东西会消逝！

好的小说告诉我们关于其主角的真相；而坏的小说告诉我们关于其作者的真相。

每一座建筑都是一个原型。

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."