The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

别到处说世界亏欠了你。世界什么都不欠你的，你还没出生它就在这儿了。

气候变化不是遥远的威胁，它正在重塑我们今天的森林。

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Every observation we make is a step closer to unraveling the mysteries of the universe.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.