It is therefore obvious that...

I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

生活中只有两种悲剧：一个是没有得到我们想要的，另外一个是得到我们想要的。

写作是一种存在于世界的方式，一种理解它的方式，以及一种改变它的方式。

Without patience, you cannot learn anything.

The true cost of plastic isn't in its production—it's in its afterlife.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.