I am not a political person by nature. I don't think that writers are, or should be, political figures.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say, I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

技术的本质绝不是任何技术性的东西。

Technology in fisheries must serve conservation first, profit second.