心灵的钟摆在意与非意之间摆动，而非对与错之间。

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The most important political development of the modern era is the rise of the modern state.

I don't believe in principles, in case you haven't noticed.

A story is not a lie, but neither is it the truth.

I've always been a private person, but I understand that comes with the territory.

听从理性的人会迷失：理性奴役所有心智不够强大无法驾驭它的人。

写作就是生活，生活就是写作。