童话故事比真实更真实：不是因为它们告诉我们龙存在，而是因为它们告诉我们龙可以被击败。
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一面映照社会的镜子。
The mind is a temporal pattern of processes.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.