人们是好奇的。少数人是。他们会被驱使去发现事物,即使是微不足道的事情。他们会把东西拼凑起来,尽管他们可能一直都知道自己可能是错的。你看到他们带着笔记本四处走动,刮掉墓碑上的泥土,阅读微缩胶片,只是希望能看到时间的涓涓细流,建立联系,从垃圾中拯救一件事物。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed.
"Every novel is a journey, both for the writer and the reader."
心是火焰的器官。
在一个资源匮乏的世界里,最有价值的资源不是石油或黄金,而是想象力。
应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由,以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
统计学是现代政治家武器库中最重要的武器。
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Resilience is what separates the good from the great.
艺术是唯一一种不必离家就能逃离的方式。