有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。我想提出几项，先说“功绩主义”，也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了，我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义，但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会，是个不可能的梦想。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
过度捕捞是一个我们可以解决的问题——只要我们立即行动。
"We are all patchworks of our experiences, memories, and the stories we tell ourselves."
"A good picture book should work without any words at all."
最大的快乐就是没有快乐，最大的荣 誉就是没有荣誉。指快乐和荣誉都是相对而言的。