"The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors."

一个人最危险的敌人是他自己的口舌。

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."

我经常看到一些人在生活中崛起，他们并不是最聪明的，有时甚至不是最勤奋的，但他们是学习的机器。他们每天晚上睡觉时都比起床时更聪明一点，这对他们有多大的帮助，尤其是当你还有很长的路要走的时候。

故事是理解世界的方式。