作家的职责是讲述真相，即使它令人不安。

我对扮演英雄不感兴趣。我对扮演人类感兴趣。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

创新的可持续农业的关键，我们必须拥抱新技术来养活世界。

【译文】 楚国的狂人接舆唱歌路过孔子车旁，说：“凤啊！凤啊！你怎么这样倒霉？过去的不可挽回，未来的还可以赶上。算了！算了！现在的执政者很危险！”

"The future of genomics lies in our ability to interpret the vast amounts of data we generate."