In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.

我被人类崇高的思想所感动－在人类的本能之中，他们对知识的受远超过了无意义的玩乐。

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world。