"To understand a place, you must first understand how it came to be."

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

有人告诉我在我书中每个方程式将会降低一半的销售量。结果，我确实放了一个方程式——爱因斯坦著名的等式，E=mc2。我发现这并没有吓跑我一半的潜在读者。

艺术的目的是让灵魂变得可见。

地理学的研究是对地球作为人类居住地的研究。