"Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it."
写作是一种存在于世界的方式，一种理解它的方式。
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.
I think music is the most powerful thing in the world because it can make you feel things that words can't.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.