写作是我向自己解释自己生活的唯一方式。
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
中国的崛起代表了自成立以来对自由国际秩序的最重大挑战。
你必须愿意失败才能成功。
The language of molecules is universal, and we are just learning to speak it.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Character is not something that you are born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.