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.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

A play is not an essay, nor should it be made into one.

再一次颁奖晚会上，孙正平问姚明：“你所到之处都是球迷追捧，有人说你是麦当劳大叔，对此你有什么感想？”姚明说

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.