作家的真正力量在于他们能够让读者通过他们的眼睛看世界。

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.

信仰是即使在看不到整个阶梯的情况下也迈出第一步。

只要准备一个自由的环境来配合儿童生命的发展阶段，孩子们的精神与秘密便会自发的显现出来了。

It is only shallow peoplewho require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself, can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

音乐是唯一属于我的东西。