"I think the first duty of a writer is to entertain."

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

解释：人饿的时候，之所以不吃乌头毒药，是认为即使能填饱肚子，但是会马上死去。

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.