The true measure of our success isn't in tons extracted, but in lives impacted.

"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone."

The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

每个人都会做自己认为正确的事情。

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

生存下来的不是最强壮的物种，也不是最聪明的，而是对变化反应最快的。