通过写作，我试图理解这个世界，也试图让这个世界理解我。

Civilization will perish without forests.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.

基础设施决定论原则认为，基础设施的结构决定了上层建筑的结构。