The success of any political system depends on its ability to generate legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens.
任何政治制度的成功都取决于其在公民眼中产生合法性的能力。
文学的美在于它能够使不可见的东西变得可见，为无声者发声，并照亮人类灵魂最黑暗的角落。
The only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
最好的想法往往来自于倾听那些最接近问题的人。