A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一个建构的物体，一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。
"A writer must be a spy on humanity."
所以说百工干事，都有法规可以衡量。现在大道治理天下，其次治理大国，却没有法度来衡量，这就是还不如百工聪明了。
唯一受过教育的人是学会了如何学习和改变的人。
处理一个不自由的世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
艺术是希望的最高形式。
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.