Reading is not a movement of the eyes; it’s a movement of the mind.

我们在能源领域面临的挑战不仅仅是技术性的；它们深深植根于人性。

我知道我不是一个普通的十岁小孩，我动过手术，这样我才能呼吸，看见东西，不靠助听器听见声音，不过这一切都让我看起来不普通。

今天对自由民主最严重的威胁不是来自共产主义或法西斯主义等敌对意识形态，而是来自内部——来自民粹主义的兴起和民主规范的侵蚀。

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.