The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Language is the writer's only tool, and yet it's never enough.

你的工作将占据你生活的大部分，唯一真正获得满足的方法是做你认为伟大的工作。