The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

活着是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

世界需要负责任的矿工，他们既了解矿产的价值，也明白地球的价值。

Transcend the individual, pursue the universal.

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."