I would rather be right than consistent.

最好的故事是那些提醒我们世界是活着的。

I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough.

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

人生来无知，而不是愚蠢；他们是通过教育而变得愚蠢的。

——临终时对孔祥熙说，1925年3月