Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

If you had one shot, or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?

The editor's job is to serve the story, not the ego.

对付不自由世界的唯一方法，就是变得彻底自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.