苏联是一个恐惧的文明，人们生活在持续的对夜间敲门声的恐惧中。
The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
如果你有一个好主意，并且你做得对，它就会成功。
The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.
The novel is the art form of the individual.