Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

"History is not just about events, but about the people who lived through them."

When someone tells you about the peak year of human history， the period of time when things were good before things went downhill， it will always be the years of when they were 10 years sold — which is the peak of any human’s existence.

我们的潜力是一回事。我们如何利用它是另一回事。