Mental activity is always directed toward some end.

科幻小说的力量在于它能让不可能的事情看起来可能。

最重要的是唤醒孩子自己的意志和创造能力。

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

The body is the first territory of political struggle.

译文：年华随同时光飞快逝去，意志随同岁月而丧失。最终(像黄叶一样)枯老衰落，大多不接触世事，对社会没有任何贡献，只能悲哀困守在自己破败的房子里，那时再悔恨又怎么来得及!