Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

La identidad no es algo dado, sino algo que se construye.

"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."

金钱只关注所有事物共有的东西，即交换价值，它将所有的质量和个性都简化为一个问题：多少？

所有好的写作都像在水下游泳和屏住呼吸。