I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together.
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say "Well it's only symbolic that women are nature", it's like no, it's not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can't get more like nature than that, in fact it's the very definition of nature.
The world is a place of the living, and the dead have no place in it. The dead are nothing. They are not even a memory.
The work of art is a mirror of the soul.
写作是理解我们在宇宙中位置的一种方式。