现在是过去卷起准备行动，过去是现在展开以便理解。
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
The healthy social life is found when in the mirror of each human soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the community the virtue of each one is living.
The only way to understand a character is to understand their contradictions.
过去从未消逝，它甚至没有过去。这在侦探小说中尤其如此。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
时间并不存在。对于河水来说，只有当下。没有过去，没有未来。