The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.

光是建筑中最重要的材料。

There's nothing more American than a coal miner.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

国君自以为神圣聪明,而不去咨询官吏,自以为国家安定强大,而不注重防守,周围的邻国图谋侵略他却不知道戒备。

I like to leave space for the reader's imagination to work.