历史学家是向后看的先知。

Be thankful for an in process. I try to take every conflict， every experience， and learn from it. Life is never dull.

The individual has to fashion himself out of the material given by his culture.

I think about the limits of language.

The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have ended in the victory of the former.

然后我有了信仰，然后我有了想象，我被他们对嘲笑的沉迷所感染，然后我看见刚果河从黑土地上蜿蜒流过，在森林中划下一道金色的沟壑。

Art has the power to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

科学不仅仅是发现，更是解决现实世界的问题。

我存在于天地之间，就如同一枚小石子、一棵小树，存在于大山之间，正以为自身实在渺小，又哪里会自满自负呢！