Escribir es una forma de protesta, y leer, una forma de resistencia.
艺术是关于关注你周围的世界。
I don’t let fear control me, I control fear.
房地产不仅仅是关于建筑,而是关于建设社区。
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
真实的定义变成了:可以给出等价复制的东西……真实不仅是能够被复制的东西,而且是总是已经被复制的东西。