您一生中至少可以做的就是弄清楚您所希望的。您所能做的最大的是生活在那个希望的内部。不要从远处欣赏它，而是住在屋顶下。我想要的是如此简单，我几乎不能说：基本善良。足够吃，足以四处走动。孩子们可能有一天会长大成为驱逐舰，也不是被摧毁的可能性。就是这样。现在，我生活在那个希望中，沿着它的走廊奔跑，触摸两侧的墙壁。
(The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.)