I'm a catalyst for change... You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访

"Neoliberalism is the ideology that says there is no alternative, while making sure there is no alternative."

"Writing is a way of making sense of the chaos of life."

The novel is a protest against the irreversibility of time.

我不是什么该死的榜样。

在我看来，现在有许多人—甚至包括科学家—似乎都只是见树不见林。关于历史与哲学背景的知识，可以提供给那些大部份正受到当代偏颇观念所左右的科学家们一种不随波逐流的独立性。这种由哲学的洞察力所创造的独立性，依我来看，正是一个工匠或专家，与一个真正的真理追寻者之间，最大的区别。