The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

写作是一种自由的行为，但也是一种责任。

"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."

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

The most successful states in the 21st century will be those that can combine the efficiency of markets with the fairness of democratic institutions.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.