We are all creatures of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
我们都是我们风景的产物；它决定了行为，甚至思想，取决于我们对它的反应程度。
I don't let the past define my future.
艺术不是关于美，而是关于真实。
"To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it."
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为，而不是时间。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.