道德既束缚又蒙蔽。它将我们束缚在意识形态团队中，彼此争斗，仿佛世界的命运取决于我们一方赢得每一场战斗。它使我们看不到每个团队都是由有重要意见的好人组成的事实。
短期收益永远不应以牺牲长期可持续性为代价。
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
作家的任务是让不可见的东西变得可见。
关键不是消除恐惧，而是控制它。