Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

早期罗马人的严格道德观念培养了一代既不过于虔诚也不过于怀疑的人。

写作就像在一面从不说谎的镜子前裸露灵魂。

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.