The stream of thought is the stream of life solving its problems.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The next generation won't ask what we said—they'll ask what we did.

我在很早之前就决定要无条件接受生活。我从来没有期望任何特别的事情发生，但我获得的总远远超过我的期望。但大部分时候，发生在我身上的事我都没有刻意追寻。

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Innovation in coal technology is just as important as innovation in any other energy sector.