A conservative is a man who sits and think, mostly sits.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

保守主义者是那种坐着思考的人,大多数时候都是坐着思考的人。

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My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.

我使用社交媒体的方法是与我已有的读者互动。我这样做主要是为了拖延写作。这是一个逃脱。这是我唯一一次和妻子以外的人交往,她对我很反感。

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

但你说你是保守的——非常保守——而我们是革命性的、破坏性的,或诸如此类的东西。保守主义是什么?它不是坚持旧的和尝试过的,反对新的和未经尝试的吗?

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

没有人坐在架子鼓前,认为这是他们凭空捏造出来的。设置在那里的事实意味着你要向婴儿多兹支付一些费用。

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

我的一部分可能比人们意识到的更保守。我喜欢我的老式弦乐四重奏,我不喜欢为了迷幻而迷幻的音乐。

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

我知道很多关于一些事情——大部分是无用的事情。