You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

小说是一种反映世界的镜子。

The best stories are those that haunt you.

安全困境是国际政治的一个基本特征，因为国家增加自身安全的努力往往会降低其他国家的安全。

创造真正繁荣的唯一途径是给予人们创新和创造价值的自由。

真正的文学不仅仅是讲述故事，而是通过故事揭示人性的复杂性。

自由比平等重要。实现平等的企图危及了自由。如果失去了自由，就连在不自由的人中间也不会有平等。