I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love—and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

The language of DNA is universal, but its applications are deeply personal.

A writer must be willing to be misunderstood.

韧性不是人们要么有要么没有的特质。它涉及任何人都可以学习和发展的行为、思想和行动。

Evil is whatever distracts.

As in geometry the most natural way of beginning is from a mathematical point, so is the same method in observations and natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.