小说是捕捉人类状况的最雄心勃勃的尝试。
The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the human condition.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
我不是完美主义者,但我喜欢把事情做好。
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.