小说是一种探索的形式，一种映射人类心灵未知领域的方式。
The novel is a form of exploration, a way of mapping the unknown territories of the human heart.
We have a responsibility, every one of us. We may think we live a long way from the oceans, but we don't. What we actually do here, has a direct effect on the oceans—and what the oceans do then reflects back on us.
Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."
我不完美，但我正在尽力。
当下是唯一的现实，唯一的确定性。
除非不再尝试，否则就没有失败。
我喜欢夜晚。没有黑暗，我们就永远看不到星星。