I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.
文学的力量在于它能够将我们与普遍的人类经验联系起来。
我不是一位雅典人或希腊人,而是一位世界的公民。
这个世界上充满了自童年以来从未以开放的心态迎接开放之门的人。