像我们这样的人，通过努力做到始终不笨，而不是努力变得聪明，获得了多少长期优势，这一点很了不起。

Memory is not a perfect recorder of events; it is a reconstructive process that can be influenced by many factors.

我认为最好的故事是那些让你带着更多问题而不是答案的故事。

The future of democracy depends on the ability of democratic societies to reform themselves.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore details that are not relevant to the task at hand.

幸福是一种内在的工作。

成为一名作家就是成为一名专业的观察者。