"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."
书籍是我们与逝者沟通的方式。是我们从那些不再与我们同在的人那里学习教训的方式，人类以此为基础，取得进步，使知识逐渐积累，而不是一次又一次地重新学习。
Foreign policy should not be confused with missionary work.
The role of literature is to confront the darkness within us and to find a way to overcome it.
有时我认为，唯一将我们与过去联系在一起的，就是现在。没有现在，过去将永远消失。
We are all prisoners of our own minds, and it is only through self-reflection that we can break free.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.