The human being is always more than what he knows of himself.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

没有人能代替孩子的成长。

写作是一种抵抗，是在日益冰冷的世界中保持人性火焰不灭的方式。