We are all characters in a story we did not write.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
诗人是一个能看到看不见的东西并听到听不到的声音的人。