The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

The best scientific discoveries often happen at the interface of different disciplines.

Small-scale fishermen are not relics of the past—they're pioneers of the future.

我写作是为了记住，为了不忘记。