The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.

眼睛不仅仅是光学仪器；它是心灵占据外部世界的手段。

The most valuable resource we harvest from the sea is knowledge.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Sometimes the simplest questions lead to the deepest theories.