To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

写作是为沉默者发声，让不可见的事物显现。

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end—but not necessarily in that order."

我不去想过去。唯一重要的是未来。

In foreign policy, the currency of trust is more valuable than gold.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.