I think all writing is a campaign against cliche. Not just cliches of the pen but cliches of the mind and cliches of the heart.
我认为所有的写作都是对抗陈词滥调的运动。不仅仅是笔下的陈词滥调，还有思想和心灵中的陈词滥调。
我几乎一无所知。但对很多事情都心存疑虑。
The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.
欧洲的统一是历史的必然。