On growth: "All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you， you're Woolworth's."

小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一个建构的物体，一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。

解释：帮助困难的人毫不倦怠，追求善行从不满足。

我写作是为了理解伤害我的东西，并让它在我之外存在。

We have a responsibility to future generations to leave the planet in better shape than we found it.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.