To be a writer is to be a professional observer.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of the centuries.

使生命成为可能的唯一事情是永久且难以忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."