如果一个作家不能激起敌意，那他就已经死了。
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
采矿技术的创新不是一种选择，而是我们对工人和环境应尽的义务。
The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names.
写过去是理解现在和想象不同未来的一种方式。