Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

I believe in making things that last, both physically and emotionally.

在文化的裂缝中，美丽的误解会绽放。

The gods to their dear shelter take you, maid, That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!

The poet is the guardian of silence.