The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.

在为增加粮食生产的机构和为控制人口的机构联合起来共同努力之前，抗击饥饿的斗争不可能取得永久性进展。

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.

内外之间的对话是根本。

意识的元素要通过实验分析来确定。

如果你总是做你一直在做的事情，你会得到你一直得到的东西。