The night is a great forest, but the stars are its trees.
文学的美在于它能够通过特定的东西揭示普遍的东西。
——2000年10月18日出席西雅图一次会议时的发言
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.