不一定是你我的母親，而是一個理想母親的想象，一個永遠(yuǎn)義無反顧的愛你，不在乎你是否功成名就的人，不幸地，大部分世人都不懷有這種母愛，大部分世人決定要花費(fèi)多少時間，給于多少愛，不一定是浪漫的那種愛，雖然那也包括在內(nèi)，世人所愿意給我們的關(guān)愛、尊重，取決于我們的社會地位。
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.
寫作是為了抵抗世界的喧囂。
"The best way to get things done is to simply begin."
寫作是對時間侵蝕的抵抗。
對物品過于在意會毀了你。只是——如果你足夠在意某樣?xùn)|西，它就會擁有自己的生命，不是嗎？而美麗的東西的全部意義——不就是它們將你與某種更大的美聯(lián)系起來嗎？
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
粗魯是弱者對強(qiáng)者的模仿。
I’m not a guy that’s going to let my respect down.
Climate change is the greatest challenge agriculture has ever faced, but also its greatest opportunity for reinvention.