我不是悲观主义者，我是一个受过悲观主义训练的乐观主义者。

恭维一向无法软化女人，对男人倒是屡试不爽，这就是男女之别。

"The best children's books are the ones that make children think."

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days when the bones are words.

心灵需要书本，就像一把剑需要磨刀石。

不要让恐惧阻止你追求梦想。

采矿技术创新不是为了取代人，而是为了让他们的工作更安全、更高效。

Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.