生命的真相不在于宏大的事件，而在于那些安静的间隙。

我不在乎别人怎么说，我只在乎自己怎么做。

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn’t like it; indeed, especially when one doesn’t like it.

"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."

"To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it."