小说是一种思考世界的方式，一种理解世界的方式。
"The novel is a way of thinking about the world, a way of understanding the world."
过去从未消逝，它甚至还未成为过去。
I want to be a tree, not because trees don't speak, but because trees don't lie.
预测未来的唯一方法就是创造未来。