人们通过编造故事来预测未来。
每一个挑战都是伪装的机会——只要愿意去寻找。
Both incentives and punishments elicit powerful responses.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.