小说是一种思考方式，而不仅仅是一种讲故事的方式。

The best research often comes from unexpected observations.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

内省是唯一可以直接观察心灵的方法。