Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

释义：从天下的角度看，应遵循天下的公理，天下不是某一姓的私有财产。

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

所有模型都是错误的，但有些是有用的。

农民的智慧往往来自观察土地在不同季节的教诲。

写作是一种抵抗那些试图让我们沉默的力量的行为。