"The poem is not a closed field, but an open one."

我拥抱挑战，因为它们让我更强大。

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

我不相信运气，我相信准备遇上机会。

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

每本书都是一句引文；每座房子都是从所有森林、矿山和采石场中引用的；每个人都是从他所有祖先中引用的。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.