Courage is the primary quality of justice.
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
使生命成为可能的唯一事情是永久且难以忍受的不确定性;不知道接下来会发生什么。
写作就是抵抗,抵抗那些试图让我们沉默的力量,抵抗那些试图控制我们的力量。