How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

整个有机体最复杂的反射就是所谓的本能。

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

所以大国攻打小国，那是互相残害，大国的错误必然反过来使其本国受害。