成功不是终点，失败也并非致命，重要的是继续前进的勇气。

"Writing is a way of making sense of the world, of finding patterns in the chaos."

历史学家的任务是理解过去，而小说家的任务是让它活过来。

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance- checks and double-checks and so forth-you could create a better world.We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful of whom we trust.

最好的科学家是那些在未知面前保持谦逊的人。

过去的33年里，我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我会想做今天将要做的事吗？”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时，我知道我需要改变一些事情。

The most important political development of the last half century has been the spread of liberal democracy around the world.