我希望读者能感受到某种令人惊讶的东西——不是“发生了什么”，而是事情发生的方式。

Literature is the art of turning chaos into order, and then questioning that order.

我们都是孤独的，生来孤独，死去孤独，尽管有真实的浪漫杂志，我们总有一天会回顾我们的生活，看到尽管有伴侣，我们一直都是孤独的。

Sleep， those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

那些将环境法规视为机遇而非障碍的公司将会蓬勃发展。