Science is the crystallization of human wisdom and an important force driving social progress.

I am interested in the human condition, in what it means to be alive, in the nature of existence.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection.

I'm not a pessimist. I'm an optimist trained in realism.

中东不只是一个地理概念，它是历史躯体上一道不断流出故事的开放性伤口。