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.

最好的写作既是个人化的，又是普世的。

In the realm of psychology, the line between normal and abnormal is often blurred and subjective.

解释：众人的愤怒不可触犯，个人专权的欲望难以成功。

创作的行为是一种魔法的行为。

"Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation."

学会从那些你不同意、甚至冒犯你的人身上学习。看看你能否发现他们背后的真相是什么。

有两种类型的公司，一种是为提高价格而工作的公司，一种是为降低价格而工作的公司，我们将成为第二种。