The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

The pharmaceutical industry has a moral obligation to put patients first.

The writer's duty is to tell the uncomfortable truths that others prefer to ignore.

The way in which men produce their means of subsistence depends first of all on the nature of the actual means they find in existence and have to reproduce.

每个故事都是对抗沉默的战斗，一种为被抹去者发声的方式。