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.
I think that one wants from painting a sense of life.
To understand the present, we must first confront the past.
通往地狱的路是由善意铺成的。
科学不仅是理性的学科，也是浪漫和激情的学科。
The world is full of pain, but art can heal it.
