最好的故事是那些困扰我们、迫使我们质疑自己确定性的故事。

——《致郑藻如书》（1890年）

We all want to be told stories, and we all want to tell stories. It's one of the things that makes us human.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.