The writer's task is to illuminate the dark corners of the human heart.

Writing is a form of self-redemption.

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

我不害怕冒险，因为我知道成长就在那里发生。

Innovation is the key to sustainable farming, and we must embrace new technologies to feed the world.

The challenge for modern states is to maintain their legitimacy while also being effective in providing services and maintaining order.