"The act of writing is an act of discovery."

【译文】具体事务分散在地方，决策核心集中于中央。

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

我不禁感到惊讶，苏格拉底在多次告诉他的同胞，他不自诩有智慧，而是被神任命为向他们传递善意的使命，竟然被判处死刑。

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

一个人的性格就是他的命运。

最好的文学诞生于我们是谁与我们渴望成为谁之间的矛盾。

我不需要理由去变得伟大。