All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

数学的进步不仅仅依靠个人的努力，而是通过几代人的集体工作。

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

我相信表演的本质是在虚构的情况下真实生活的能力。

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

When basic needs are insecure, all idealism withers.

也许不知道一切会如何发展反而是件好事。