"The dead are invisible, they are not absent."

True intelligence is seamless service, not showing off tech.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

不要对那些你已敞开心扉的人紧闭双唇。

"A good story is one that stays with you long after you've finished reading it."

我们都在阴沟里，但有些人却在仰望星空。

有人居住的世界的界限是由人类知识的范围决定的。

A building must respect its neighbors.

阅读是不动而旅行；写作是旅行而不动。

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

活着就是受苦，生存就是在苦难中找到某种意义。