管得最少的政府是最好的政府。

没有实用性的创新只是噪音，农民需要真正的解决方案。

我不觉得我必须取悦任何人。我感到自由。我觉得我是一个成年人。我长大了。我可以做我想做的事。我可以说我想说的话。如果我想，我可以退休。这就是我努力工作

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.

艺术不是你看到的，而是你让别人看到的。

以客观角度来看，这个世界确实变得更好，但同时也变得更糟。前进一步，又倒退一步，仿佛宇宙在科技进步和文化倒退间达成平衡，使人类的进展呈钟形曲线。

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."