世界是一个充满阴影的地方，而我们则是穿行其中的幽灵。

States are rational actors, and they will always act in their own self-interest.

Productivity metrics that ignore environmental impact are accounting tricks, not real progress.

"It's not about gender, it's about the work."

"The act of creation is an act of resistance against the chaos of the world."

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.