我认为小说家的任务是让熟悉的事物变得陌生，让陌生的事物变得熟悉。

The only way to understand a character is to understand their contradictions.

我们不是在制造电脑的行业；我们是在制造伟大软件的行业。

Then I had religion, then I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black, cutting through the forest with a golden track。