旅程本身就是一个人；没有两个是相同的。所有的计划、保障、监管和强制都是徒劳的。经过多年的奋斗，我们发现我们并没有去旅行；旅行带走了我们。
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
In the realm of perception, the whole is not only more than but also very different from the sum of its parts.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Every drop of milk tells a story of dedication—from the farmer to the consumer.
Writing is a way of resisting forgetting.