The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
The most successful societies in the world are those that have been able to combine the strengths of the state with the strengths of the market.
成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时刻坐在桌前写作;不是等待从胸骨中迸发出天才的蓝色火焰——只是写作。
"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."
The problem of the modern age is the problem of the individual's self-preservation in the face of the overwhelming power of the social mechanism.
So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.