The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
"El arte de escribir es el arte de descubrir lo que crees."
"Das Leben ist ein Buch, und jeder Tag ist eine neue Seite."
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
痛苦可以摧毁一个人,也可以塑造一个人。