To write is to confront the ghosts of our past, to give them a voice, and perhaps, to set them free.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
死亡是少数几件只要躺下就能完成的事情之一。