The true value of a forest cannot be measured in board feet alone.
"The best stories are the ones that surprise the writer as much as the reader."
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.
The persistence of gender inequality is not just a failure of policy but a failure of imagination.
Data tells you what's happening, but only intuition can tell you why.
"写作是一种反抗,是对遗忘的反抗。"