A writer must be a witness to their time.
作家必须成为他们时代的见证者。
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day， and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it ten years. A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.
The writer’s life is a life of solitude.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
未来属于那些能够在传统与变革之间取得平衡的人。
The mind is a place of its own which in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
没有单一版本的历史；只有不同的视角。
文学是唯一能让我们暂时逃离现实的毒品。
I'm not going to tell them about the downsizing. If a patient has cancer, you don't tell them.