To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that one's own voice is worth hearing.

文学不会改变世界，但可以改变那些将改变世界的人。

没有完美，只有生活。

创新不仅仅是技术的问题；它是关于改变思维方式和拥抱新的思考方法。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

对年轻人的适当教育不在于将大量从不同作者那里拖来的词语、句子和想法塞进他们的头脑，而在于打开他们对外部世界的理解。