写书就像冒险。一开始它是玩具和娱乐。然后她成了你的情妇。然后是你的主人。然后变成一个暴君。最后你终于认命的时候,它死了,然后给拖到外面游街。

We can distinguish the blurred shapes and colours we see at a distance only because of the capacities of our eyes.

"Language is the house of being. In its home man dwells."

发展需要消除不自由的主要根源：贫困和暴政，经济机会的匮乏以及系统的社会剥夺，公共设施的忽视以及压制性国家的过度活跃或不宽容。

My life is an improvisational performance.

It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men， that houses， mountains， rivers， and in a word all sensible objects， have an existence， natural or real， distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.