写作是一种抵抗，是保持记忆和身份鲜活的方式。

"All the time you spend trying to get back what's been taken from you, more is going out the door."

智慧属于对永恒事物的智性理解；知识则属于对临时事物的理性理解。

Agriculture is the backbone of civilization, and we must treat it with the respect it deserves.

"The novel is the great democratic art form. It's the one place where you can be anyone, do anything, and say anything."

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.