写作是找到一种声音，然后有勇气使用它的问题。

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

数学不仅仅是人类的发明；它具有一种独立于我们而存在的深刻现实。

我不是在晚上做梦，我整天都在做梦。我为梦想而活。

"The power of a story lies in its ability to make us feel less alone."