It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

The future of energy lies in the integration of traditional and renewable sources. We must adapt and lead this transition.

2011：贝索斯致股东信《自助平台，开启创新》

The duty of literature is to disturb, to question, to undermine certainties.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

当有人真正倾听你而不对你做出评判，不试图为你承担责任，不试图塑造你时，感觉真是太好了！

I can resist everything except temptation.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.

The best biographies are those that make the reader feel they have met the subject in person.

文学是人类的记忆。