我认为小说家的任务是让熟悉的事物变得陌生，让陌生的事物变得熟悉。
"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
人类最大的欺骗来自于自己的观点。
我们之所以能够区分远处看到的模糊形状和颜色，是因为我们的眼睛的能力。
真理，之于宗教，只不过是一些能被保存下来的观点。
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."