No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Human freedom is bounded by its choices.

每个城市都有自己的心跳，如果你仔细聆听，就能听到它的故事。