在言语之间的沉默中，我们常常发现最深刻的真理。

We use mathematics to understand the markets, not to predict them.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

那些无法掌控主导他们生活的故事的人，无法重述、重新思考、解构、嘲笑并随着变化而改变它的人，真正是无力的，因为他们无法思考新的思想。

写作就是呼吸，就是生活，就是存在。

轧棉机的发明纯属偶然；那时我还很年轻，非常贫穷，对我来说从中实现一些价值是一个重要的目标。

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.