如果你可以直接从植物中制造肉类，为什么还需要动物呢？
If you can make meat directly from plants, why would you need an animal?
——临终时对孔祥熙说，1925年3月
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
The novel is a form of exploration, a way of understanding the world and our place in it.
试图指导私人如何使用他们的资本的政治家，不仅会使自己背负起极不必要的责任，还会行使一种权力，它不能被信任交给任何单个个体，甚至不能被信任交给任何理事会或议会，而且这种权力在愚蠢和自负到足以自认为有资格行使它的人手中最为危险。