The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

The mind is a system for making life possible.

The decline of violence may be the most significant and least-appreciated development in the history of our species.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

风险管理不是消除风险，而是在可接受的范围内理解和控制风险。

诗人的工作是命名不可命名之物，指出欺诈，选边站队，引发争论，塑造世界，并阻止它沉睡。

所有的痛苦都是痛苦。