You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

A good story is one that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.

我不是来取悦任何人的。

The strength of a society lies in its ability to balance individual freedom with social cohesion.

战略的本质是你必须对你想要完成的事情设定限制。

To write about war is to write about the silence that follows.