If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one.

文学是使不可见之物可见的艺术。

过去并未死去，它甚至还未过去。