我们这个时代的巨大挑战是建立能够管理现代社会复杂性的机构。
The great challenge of our time is to build institutions that can manage the complexity of modern societies.
Escribir es una forma de amar, de acariciar las palabras hasta que se conviertan en algo más que palabras.
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.