La literatura es una forma de resistencia, una manera de decir que no todo está perdido.

民主不是万灵药。它不能组织一切，也不知道自己的局限性。我们必须正视这些事实。

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

"I believe in the power of books to change lives."

真理是所有伟大艺术的基础。

The highest knowledge is the knowledge of the self.