"In the end, all stories are about the search for meaning."

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The pursuit of truth is the noblest endeavor of mankind.

问题是，我们是否乐于假设我们的孙子孙女可能永远无法在大象的图片书之外看到大象？

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.

作家是那些花费数年耐心地试图发现自己内心第二个存在的人。

我一直是一个追随内心的人。

It is a logically necessary truth that the future will resemble the past.

I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person, a free person. I dream that someday you will return to revisit the land of our childhood. I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets again...and kites will fly in the skies!