权力精英由那些其职位使他们能够超越普通男女的普通环境的人组成；他们处于能够做出具有重大后果的决策的位置。

我们都会死，这让我们成为幸运的人。大多数人永远不会死，因为他们永远不会出生。

翻译：文字不能完整地表达语言，语言不能完整地表达心意。

Take time every day to do something for yourself.

If not me, who? If not now, when?

A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.

技术应该服务于人，而不是让人去适应技术。

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.

The true beauty of architecture lies in its ability to touch the soul.