The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

"The power of literature lies in its ability to make the invisible visible."

艺术是逃离存在恐怖的唯一途径。

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.