When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

当人们谈论写作、说话或思考的自由时,我只能笑。从来没有这样的东西存在过。现在不存在这样的东西;但我希望它会存在。但这一定是在你我不再写信和说话之后的几百年以后了。

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

法律和秩序的存在是为了建立正义,而当它们在这一目标上失败时,就会成为阻碍社会进步的危险的结构性障碍。

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

我所见过或听到的世界上最美丽的事情之一就是人们在笑,即使他们似乎没有什么理由笑。

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

我还没有让人们感到痛苦。如果他们要让我痛苦,那我也要让他们痛苦。

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

在他的作品中,作者必须像宇宙中的上帝,无处不在,无处可见。

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

我想让你们笑十分钟虽然我要讲一个小时。

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

家就是我的家。遗憾的是,我不需要历史才能存在于某个地方。

But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice.

但是,当我吃到抱子甘蓝的时候,我就知道我是在薄冰上。

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

我比人们意识到的更注重隐私。我不是那么容易认识的。

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

言论自由并不意味着不受审判。

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

我为什么要写作?因为我发现生活令人不满意。

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

人是生而自由的,在任何地方都受着枷锁的束缚。

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

电影有它自己的生活,有它自己的时间。