The most successful modern states are those that have been able to harness the power of the market while maintaining a strong state that can provide public goods and regulate private activity.
最成功的现代国家是那些能够利用市场力量，同时保持一个能够提供公共产品和规范私人活动的强大国家的国家。
History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.
Finding light in the darkness is the mission of every writer.
A novelist's job is to lie, but to reveal the truth through lies.