"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

Literature is a rebellion, a resistance against injustice.

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I would say that in the long run probably Communist China is likely to be in more of an expansionist phase than Soviet Russia...In their tactics, the Chinese Communists are probably the greater menace;

The poet's mission is to illuminate the darkness.

I’m not afraid to take a step back if it means I can take two forward.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.