The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power in a way that premodern states could not.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don’t like that, but that’s the way I am.

小说是人类发现的微妙相互关系的最高范例。

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable to no one.

世俗的君子，如果他很穷你却说他很富，他就会发怒；如果他不义你却说他有义，就很高兴。 

计算的未来在于不同领域的整合，如生物学、物理学和数学。