真正的美国发现还在我们面前。我们精神、我们人民、我们强大而不朽的土地的真正实现尚未到来。

The walls of a garden should be high enough to keep the world out, but low enough to let the sky in.

我想这就是爱人的一部分：你必须放弃一些东西。有时你甚至不得不放弃他们。

I'm not a person who likes to be in the middle.

The currency of leadership is not greed, but generosity.

写作是一种发现你所想的方式，一种探索世界和你在其中位置的方式。

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

The purpose of business is to improve people's lives.

小说的问题在于它太有道理了。现实从来都没有道理。