作家必须有勇气面对真相，无论它有多么痛苦。

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

译文：积德行善，祥瑞自然会降临，作恶多端，祸殃会不请自来，可以看出人世间已分出天堂和地狱。赏析：人生在世，多做好事，莫做恶事。好事做得多，不仅是帮自己积福，更是帮子孙后代积福。坏事做尽，迟早会遭到上天的惩罚，即使不报应在自身，也会报应在子孙后代。