这就是为什么我们如此在乎事业和成就，以及看重金钱和物质的原因。我们时常被告知我们处在一个物质挂帅的时代，我们都是贪婪的人。我并不认为我们特别看重物质，而是活在一个物质能带来大量情感反馈的时代。
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
牺牲自由以换取安全（可指生活保障）的人，不配有自由和安全。
你看不见你自己，你所看见的只是你的影子。
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
"To understand the future, one must first understand the past."
返祖现象是理解天生犯罪人的关键。