Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. In other words -- what is a meritocratic society? A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. It's a beautiful idea.
文学是一种抵抗的形式,一种对遗忘说不的方式。
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
我不是政客,不是传教士,我只是个载体。
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The more I write, the more I disappear.