The best solutions often come from listening to those who work the land every day.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

经过无数代人的努力，你才达到了现在的水平。也许需要一点感激之情。如果你要坚持让世界按你的方式弯曲，你最好有自己的理由。

"The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands."

我对愚人有着极大的信心；我的朋友称之为自信。

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person， or in the same body of magistrates， there can be no liberty.