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.

She had always been a watcher, a listener, a collector of stories.

I am following nature without being able to grasp her.

世俗的君子，如果他很穷你却说他很富，他就会发怒；如果他不义你却说他有义，就很高兴。 

质量不是承诺；它是一种结果。