孤独催生我们内心的原创性，催生陌生而危险的美——催生诗歌。

What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears.

You have to be ruthless in business, but fair at the same time.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the historical process.

最伟大的诗歌诞生于最深的苦难。

在真实与不真实之间，在真与假之间，没有严格的区别。一件事不一定是非真即假；它可以是既真又假。