For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

The true measure of our success in grain production lies not in the yield alone, but in how we balance productivity with environmental stewardship.

Every book is a door that opens onto another world, and every reader is a traveler who steps through it.

"The imagination is a muscle. If you don't use it, it atrophies."

Music is my refuge and also my battlefield.

过去总是存在，只是有时比其他时候更明显。

The dead are always listening. The dead are always watching.