I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

适应是进化的关键。

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

一个社会的竞争优势不是来自学校把乘法和元素周期表教得多么好，而是来自他们激发学生想象力和创造力的程度。

一个人不仅可以通过他的行为对他人造成伤害，也可以通过他的不作为对他人造成伤害，无论哪种情况，他都应对他们负有道义责任。

Words can be both wounds and bandages.