The study of mathematics is like air or gravity – it’s everywhere, even if you don’t see it.

当今文学最需要讲述和探究的是人类的基本恐惧：被排斥在外的恐惧，无足轻重的恐惧，以及随之而来的无价值感。

渔业的未来在于平衡经济增长与生态责任。

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

对认可的渴望，灵魂中的激情部分，是人格中最基本的人性部分。

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

The best performances come from a place of honesty and vulnerability.

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.