Every act of writing is an act of betrayal.

真正的监狱不是由铁条制成的，而是由恐惧制成的。

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.

Music is the one thing that can truly transcend borders.

进步的真正衡量标准不在于知识的积累，而在于其应用于人类的改善。

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.