The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

写作是找到一种声音，然后有勇气使用它的问题。

True progress happens when we stop defending the status quo and start challenging it.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.