有些时候，过去感觉如此之近，仿佛伸手就能触碰，然后它又消失了，像烟一样。
"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Our perception of reality is shaped by our expectations and past experiences.
一部好小说应该像一颗炸弹，在读者脑海中爆炸并留下持久的影响。
A malignant book would hurt nobody but the fool who wrote it.