凡是做学问，必须从各个方面都理解透彻，还要更进一步深入理解内在的道理。

The future of liberal democracy depends on its ability to address the challenges of inequality and political polarization.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

我写作是为了理清我内心的混乱。