文学是一种理解世界的方式，是在混乱中找到意义，在无意义中找到意义。
Literature is a way to understand the world, to make sense of the chaos, to find meaning in the meaningless.
The properties of the whole are not deducible from the properties of the parts.
最重要的政治美德是节制，即能够以促进共同利益的方式平衡相互竞争的利益和价值观。
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself.
