The most successful modern states are those that have been able to combine a strong state with the rule of law and democratic accountability.

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

"The future of physics lies not in discovering new particles, but in understanding the deeper principles that govern the behavior of the particles we already know."

电影的美妙之处在于它可以带你去任何地方。

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.