The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

To write is to create a world within a world.

乐趣不在于拥有这个人。乐趣在于此。在房间里与另一个竞争者在一起。

一个文明的真正考验在于它如何对待最弱小的成员。