作家是一个总是在寻找正确词汇、完美词汇的人，那个能让读者看到他所看到的、感受到他所感受到的、理解他所理解的词汇。

建筑应该像一朵云——存在但不沉重。

我们飞得越高，对于那些不能飞翔的人，我们就显得越小。

The laws of physics are the same in every corner of the universe.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

小说中的人物比他的创造者拥有更多自由——这就是支撑我写作的讽刺。

译文：想要看清一个人，应当看看他交的是什么朋友。

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.