没有人写作、绘画、雕塑、建模、建造或发明，除非是为了真正地逃离地狱。
No one has ever written or painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Sometimes the simplest melodies carry the deepest emotions.
The essence of learning is the acquisition of meanings.
Energy poverty is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Access to affordable energy should be a right, not a privilege.
我不是开始，我是结束。
I don’t do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.
可持续性不是一种选择，而是我们对后代的责任。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
真正的领导力在于创造一个人们能够茁壮成长并充分发挥潜能的环境。
我不是说唱歌手，我是一个写作的传奇。