All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
所有的变化，即使是最渴望的，也带着忧郁；因为我们留下的是一部分的自己；我们必须告别一种生活，才能进入另一种。
监狱生活充满了一段又一段的例行公事。
理解变化的唯一方法是投入其中，与之共舞。
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
"We are not seven, we are one. We are bulletproof."
The best art leaves you with more questions than answers.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the human condition.