The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome given the alternatives.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand exactly what you meant, and it would give you back exactly what you wanted.
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
Art has the power to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
写作的行为是对遗忘的抵抗行为。
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 personal is the starting point of all literature.
