现代时代最重要的政治发展是现代国家的崛起。

人是唯一拒绝成为自己的生物。

Let me live truly, my Lord, so that death to me becomes true.

人生是一场无法预测的冒险。

设计应该解决问题，而不是制造新的问题。

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."