人生不可能毫无失败，除非活得如此谨慎，那还不如根本没活过。
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.
在我们的内心深处被唤起的，就是那个久远的背景——古老的人类心理模式，它们源于遗传而非后天习得，我们从业已模糊的往日世代继承了它们。
译文：别人不如自己的地方，不可以拿出来，在他面前卖弄；别人做不了的善事，不能因自己做过而拿出来炫耀；别人能力比不上我，不能拿来难为别人、压制别人；即使自己很有才华，也要懂得收敛起来，不要招摇，做到看起来很平凡。
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.
The novel is a machine for generating meaning.
人类对变化过敏。他们喜欢说，“我们一直都是这样做的。”我试图与之抗争。这就是为什么我的墙上有一个逆时针运行的时钟。
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Small-scale fishers and large aquaculture firms must find common ground—the ocean is big enough for both.