And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

可持续捕捞不是一种选择；而是生存的必需。

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

做父亲就是被诅咒着看你的孩子长大。

——2004年在南京航空学院上的演讲

我写作是为了理解。我写作是为了不忘却。

J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.