“The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences.”
英语
“东方几乎是欧洲的发明，自古以来就是一个充满浪漫、异国生灵、萦绕不去的记忆与风景、非凡经历的地方。”
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others.”
英语
“每一个帝国在其官方话语中都说自己与其他帝国不同。”
“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points.”
英语
“今天没有人纯粹是某一种身份。印度人、女人、穆斯林或美国人这样的标签不过是起点。”
“The intellectual's role is to speak the truth to power.”
英语
“知识分子的角色是向权力说出真相。”
“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.”
英语
“流亡是一种奇特地引人深思却可怕地经历的状态。”
“Humanism is the only, I would go so far as to say the final, resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
英语
“人文主义是我们对歪曲人类历史的非人实践和不公正所能做出的唯一的——我甚至要说是最后的——抵抗。”