一个国家的力量不仅仅是其强制能力，还包括其提供服务的能力以及在公民眼中保持合法性的能力。

Logic is one thing and common sense another.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

每个故事都是一次旅程，每次旅程都会改变旅行者。