Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

Climate change is the greatest challenge agriculture has ever faced, but also its greatest opportunity for reinvention.

Don't just grow crops—grow ecosystems.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

I'm not a person who likes to be ordinary.

作家的任务是让不可见的东西变得可见。

Thinking is behavior. The muscular habits learned in overt speech are responsible for implicit or internal speech (thought).