To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with people smarter than they are.

对正义的评估必须基于对实际社会与可行替代方案的某种比较。

Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.