Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this was a long-term plan.

发现宇宙加速膨胀完全是一个意外。

"你越是试图理解镜子，就越少知道。"

"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized, where the dream of a world without classes is to be realized, where the dream of a world without genders is to be realized."

The act of writing is an act of faith—in language, in the reader, in the story itself.