"There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best."

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

森林不仅仅是资源，它们是地球的肺，也是我们对抗气候变化的最佳防线。

The world is full of broken people.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

最大的危险，失去自我，可以在世界上非常安静地发生，仿佛它根本不是什么大事。