我是你妈妈死去的原因，我是你爸爸逃跑的原因。

我是那种会让你想要停止吸毒的人。

The novel is a way of thinking, not just a way of telling a story.

The task of the writer is to make the invisible visible.

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

过去是一个异国他乡；他们做事的方式不同。

最重要的政治美德是节制，即能够以促进共同利益的方式平衡相互竞争的利益和价值观。