The power of steam is now so well understood, that nothing remains but to improve the practice.
蒸汽的力量如今已被充分理解,剩下的只是改进实践。
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
Literature is a form of resistance, a weapon against injustice and oppression.
The idea is not to have any 90-degree angles. In the beginning, there was the diagonal. The diagonal comes from the idea of the explosion which "re-forms" the space.
我们都是自己的监狱,自己的狱卒。