I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect.
我深切感到，关于造物这整个问题过于深奥，已超乎人类理智。
The principal effect of the progress of society is to increase the quantity of wealth, and the power of distributing it.
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 turn to the novel.
我们需要对非人类发展出一种新的敏感性。
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something."