I am a writer because I need to tell stories. It's a way of understanding life.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

The details are not the details; they make the design.

我们所认识的最美丽的人是那些经历过失败、痛苦、挣扎、失落，并找到了走出深渊之路的人。

当获得正确的工具和知识时，小农场可以产生巨大影响。