"Writing is a way of making sense of the world, even when it doesn't make sense."
写作是一种理解世界的方式,即使世界本身没有意义。
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.