小说就像蜘蛛网，或许连接得很轻，但仍然在四个角落都与生活相连。
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
We are all migrants through time.
The brain is a machine assembled not to understand itself, but to survive. It is a machine for making decisions that lead to survival.
推动的关键是使期望的行为更加突出、更容易和更有吸引力。
最好的建筑既是谦逊的，又是英雄的。
在我们这样的社会中，真正的政治任务是批评那些看似中立和独立的机构的运作；以这样一种方式批评和攻击它们，以至于一直通过它们暗中行使的政治暴力将被揭露。