当今世界面临的最重要挑战是在发展中国家建立强大、有效且负责任的国家。

 我对一切都保持怀疑。

"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."

海洋在任何地方都是相同的，只是被赋予了不同的名称。

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

In the stock market, the most important thing is not to predict the future, but to understand the present.

我们畏惧的事情常常是我们自己促成。

我总是被那些坚强独立的角色所吸引。

乳制品的未来取决于我们适应不断变化的消费者需求的能力。

写作是一种抵抗，是保持记忆鲜活的方式。