我不理会学科的地域界限，我只是抓住我所能抓住的所有大思想。

"The city is my subject. It's endlessly fascinating to me."

我们海洋的健康就是我们星球的健康。

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

"To write is to breathe life into the shadows of our imagination."

出自先秦《荀子·子道》。服从真理而不服从君主，服从道义而不服从父命。说明在真理、道义与君令、父命相矛盾时要服从前者，意在强调唯“道”、“义”是从的理念。