我们总是高估未来两年内会发生的变化，而低估未来十年内会发生的变化。不要让自己被麻痹而无所作为。

语言是一种武器，我精准地运用它。

为别人浪费的一天并不是为自己浪费的一天。

The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.

研究的多样性会带来更强大的解决方案。

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.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.