I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

  • -- Reinhold Niebuhr 莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫

我认为应该有这样一个俱乐部,牧师和记者可以聚在一起,一个人的多愁善感与另一个人的愤世嫉俗相匹配。这应该能让他们更接近事实。

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I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

我想要反对的是,我认为当时不是很成熟,但现在已经完全成熟了,它取代了一个真正意义上的扭曲的国家,你可以把它卖给那些被称为“遗产”的人。

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

我现在很难知道该怎么说核聚变,因为它在科学上还不可行。我只是不明白为什么这么多人能预测这么多科学上还不可能的事情。

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

我的很多幽默确实来自于愤怒。就像,你不会把车停在我身上——这是我的座右铭。

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

我不认为你的领导是悲观和愤世嫉俗。我认为你乐观、热情、精力充沛。

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

如果你是一个漂亮的男孩流行歌手,它会毁了你,变老。

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

犬儒主义充满了天真的失望。