True growth comes from understanding the land and working with it, not against it.

如果你想保护珍贵的东西，就必须把它锁起来，然后把钥匙扔掉。

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

To write is to leave a part of yourself behind.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

诗人是人类情感的守护者。