Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

Engineering is about solving problems, not just making things look pretty.

假如一个女人爱上了一个男人，只要女方不故意瞒住男方，男方一定会看得出的。

最好的电影是那些在你观看后久久留在你心中的电影。

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.