A writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, to challenge the status quo.

过度捕捞的真正代价是用空荡荡的渔网和破碎的社区来衡量的。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."