预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

The constant pursuit of wisdom is the highest goal of life.

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out."

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.

文学不是一场道德选美比赛。它的力量来自声音的权威，而非灵魂的纯洁。

There is no must in art because art is free.

文学是文字的艺术，而文字是思想的工具。