Every law is an infraction of liberty.

I’m not here to be liked, I’m here to be remembered.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

The only way to escape the weight of history is to write about it.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions” that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

我为什么要站到这儿，我站到讲台上，是想提醒我自己我们必须时刻用不同的眼光来看待事物。

"The poem is a place where the unsayable can be said."