If you can dream it, you can do it.

任何牺牲基本自由以换取短暂安全的人，最后既得不到安全也得不到自由。（放弃基本的自由以换取苟安的人，终归失去自由，也得不到安全。）

I don’t write for the reader; I write for myself.

作战虽然讲究排兵布阵，但士兵的勇敢是其中的根本;丧葬虽然讲究礼节，但对亲人的哀思是其中的根本;一个人虽然很有学识，但思想道德、行为举止是其中的根本。

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.