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.

We are all different, but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt and survive.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

关键不是要征服，而是要打好仗。