The customer is always right, even when they're wrong.

Every time I write a book, every time I face that blank page, I’m convinced that I can’t do it.

The mind is a machine that can be understood through the principles of computation.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The best reader is the writer who reads to steal.

A book is a meeting place, a shared space of imagination.

美不是装饰，而是一种必需品。

The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.