作家的职责是扰乱平静，让安逸者不安，让不安者得到安慰。

2002年：贝索斯致股东信《同时提供领先世界的用户体验，和价格最低的产品》

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

我们都在一个并不总是有意义的世界里尽力而为。

夜晚是一首伟大的诗，星星是其中的诗句。

伟大家具的精髓在于它能讲述一个故事。

释义：当对知识的理解达到真实、确切、坚定的程度时，这种理解就会体现为具体的行动；而在行动中能做到明白、警觉、精细、明察的地步，这也反映了对相关知识的掌握。