海洋生态平衡比短期经济利益更重要，我们要有长远眼光。

The so-called ‘information age’ has given us a surplus of information and a deficit of meaning.

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

今天我们开采的石料必须留下让未来引以为豪的遗产。

"The writer is a man who is in love with words, who is obsessed with words, who is possessed by words."

We read to know we are not alone.