故事的力量在于它能够激发宽恕。
"The power of a story is in its ability to inspire forgiveness."
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy， in our age， can do for those who study it.
The world must be set in order. The time has come when ethics must be dealt with by science, and never again by mere opinion.
我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。