"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized, where the dream of a world without classes is to be realized."

"The pursuit of meaning is more important than the pursuit of happiness."

译文：保全自身先要孝顺，治理国家先要公正。将“孝”与“公”视为立身处世的根基。

A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it.

I want my books to be a mirror, not a window.

The best reader is the writer who reads to steal.