The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.
Science is the foundation, but compassion is the soul of our industry.
孩子的基本工作是自私——追求自己的需求和欲望——而父母的基本工作是无私。
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.