Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

如果你是战士，别为你自己的自由而战，而要为你战友的自由而战。这样，战争对你俩来说，就会更加鼓舞人心。

虚弱者通过厚颜无耻变得强大，强者通过妥协变得强大。

城市是集体创作的艺术品。

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

"To write a life is to give it a second chance."

故事的力量在于它能将我们与他人连接起来。