诗歌也许教会我们培育迷人的幻想：如何一遍又一遍地从自我中重生，并用语言构建一个更美好的世界，一个虚构的世界，使我们能够与生活签订一份永久而全面的和平协议。
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
每个人的生命都是上帝手指写下的童话。
The intersection of gender and economics reveals the hidden dynamics of power and opportunity.
——一九二八年四月十三日斯大林在联共(布)莫斯科组织的积极分子会议上所作的报告《关于中央委员会和中央监察委员会四月联席全会的工作》
The world is so full of simple, obvious, and beautiful things that it's a wonder anyone ever bothers to invent anything at all.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
衡量一个人的标准是他如何使用权力。
