The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Writing is a way of preserving the ephemeral.
世界上到处都是愿意帮你制造龙卷风的人,这样你以后就可以声称自己幸存下来了。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
The best reader is the writer who reads his own work.