世界是一团伟大的火焰，我们是其中的火花。
The world is a great fire, and we are the sparks.
"Cinema is not just entertainment; it's a way of understanding the world."
2006年：贝索斯致股东信《选择新业务时，亚马逊的经验》
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
——《在东京留日三团体欢迎会的演说》（1913年3月1日）
我爱人类作为我的同胞；但他的权杖，无论是真实的还是篡夺的，除非个人的理性要求我致敬，否则不会延伸到我。
The study of cognition requires both empirical and theoretical approaches.