"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."

我们的主很狡猾，好在他不怀歹意。

"The power of literature lies in its ability to connect us across time and space."

"The best stories are those that leave room for the reader’s imagination."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.