"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

I like a film to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

海鲜的可追溯性不仅关乎质量，更关乎责任。

Architecture should be silent, not shouting.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

人类对变化过敏。他们喜欢说，“我们一直都是这样做的。”我试图与之抗争。这就是为什么我的墙上有一个逆时针运行的时钟。

国家一定要有直言进谏的臣子，上级必须有敢于提出反对意见的下级，议论国政的人不停止，各种不同政见的人相互辩论，才可以长久保存国家，使国家兴盛强大。也就是说言论自由是民众的基本权利，每个人都可以提出不同的政见，民众有平等参与政治的权利。