And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

写作是一种勇气的行为，一种面对存在混乱的方式。

The novel is the only art form capable of fully representing human complexity.

阈限性是两个阶段之间的过渡状态，个体不再处于前一个状态，但尚未进入下一个状态。

创新不仅仅是创造新产品；它关乎我们如何重新构想解决问题的方式。