Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.
国际政治是一项残酷而危险的事务,而且很可能继续保持这种状态。
无论我们描述的是国王、刺客、小偷、诚实的人、妓女、修女、年轻女孩还是市场上的摊主,我们描述的始终是我们自己。