小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。但小说是生命的一本明亮的书。

A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.

I don't write plays to be liked. I write plays to make people think.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

The most successful societies in the future will be those that are able to combine the strengths of both the state and the market.

世界是一个伟大的时钟，我们是其中的指针。