小说的艺术在于讲述那些无法讲述的东西。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

我对事物的边缘感兴趣。

唯一能理解变化的方式就是投身其中，随之而动，并加入这场舞蹈。

读经书，阅传注，就为治学打下坚实基础；看史籍，鉴古今，就使宏论滔滔切中肯綮；游山川，观壮景，就使志气凌云眼界开阔；戒嗜好，弃私欲，就使胸怀磊落一尘不染。