我们都是记忆的总和，然而我们记得的却如此之少。

电影是一种可以以其他媒介无法做到的方式讲述故事的媒介。

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.

唯一比外星人更让我害怕的是没有外星人。我们不能是创造物中最好的。我祈祷我们不是全部。如果是这样，我们就麻烦大了。

The best mathematics is not just correct; it is illuminating.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

文学的作用是使世界更加复杂，而不是简化它。