作家的任务是使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
The best quarries leave not just holes in the ground, but value in communities.
不要害怕放弃好的东西去追求伟大的东西。
A miner's safety should never be measured in cost-benefit analyses.