The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

你信任的不是工具——工具只是工具——它们要么工作，要么不工作。你信任的是人，或者不信任。

"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."