"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

We need to think creatively about how to solve the world's biggest problems.

过度捕捞是从子孙后代那里偷窃——我们必须成为制止它的一代。

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

"Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong."