世界上充满了这样的人，他们心目中令人满意的未来，实际上是对理想化过去的回归。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
A writer is a person who is passionately in love with language.
政策辩论应以严格的实证分析为基础。
电影是梦，是幻觉，是现实与理想的交织。
The real value of a bank lies in its ability to serve the real economy.
The weak grow strong by effrontery, the strong by yielding.
求学的最大益处，在于自我改变气质。