故事没有开始或结束：人们任意选择那个经验时刻来回顾或展望。
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
"The writer is a man who is always searching for the right word, the perfect word, the word that will make the reader see what he sees, feel what he feels, understand what he understands."
The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is.
我比以往任何时候都站得更稳。看起来像个真正的幸存者，感觉像个小孩。
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.