"To write about pain is to dissolve its power over memory."

We don’t inherit the ocean from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

煤炭的真正价值在于我们如何负责任地开采和使用它。

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

What is tragedy? tragedy is the conflict of good.

Inflation is a very bold idea, but it seems to be the only way to explain the observed features of the universe.