死亡很可能是唯一的、最好的生命创造。它是生命的促变者。它送走老一代，给新一代开出道路。

凡事不能只看表面现象。钓鱼人虽然躬着身子，并不是因为对鱼恭敬；捕捉老鼠的人，把虫子留给老鼠吃，并不是因为喜爱老鼠。

To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist oppression, to resist the erasure of memory.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

我们都是自己感知的囚徒，但通过写作，我们可以找到自由的钥匙。