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.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
The trick is to pay attention to what's happening around you and to keep writing.
Power is not a toy we give to children. It is a weapon we place in the hands of soldiers.
女人了解她所爱的男人的脸,就像水手了解开阔的大海。