There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

  • -- Robert A. Heinlein 罗伯特·海因莱因

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

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You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

你只需要看看伦敦,几乎一半的小学生把英语作为第二语言,就能看到我们现在作为一个国家所面临的挑战。这对任何人都不公平:如果人们连自己的邻居都不会说同一种语言,他们怎么能与之建立关系呢?

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

对于一个作家,大多数读者相信双重标准:他们可能经常对他不忠,但他必须永远,永远不要对他们不忠。

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

好吧,每一天都不会是你生命中最美好的一天,别担心。如果你坚持下去,你就有可能拥有更好的日子。

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

诚然,就政治家的职业品质而言,他并不总是,甚至常常符合最受认可的私人行为模式。

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

如果我留在智利,我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中,在家庭中,在人们期望我成为的那个人里。

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

设计是面向人的。设计是通过识别人类问题并执行最佳解决方案来解决人类问题。

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

即使是在我刚毕业的时候,我也是一个孤独的人,我经常学习音乐,演奏它,我还参加了乐队。

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

一个问题最重要的不是它的解决方案,而是我们在寻找解决方案时获得的力量。

I am all for using business - public and private - to expand healthcare coverage.

我完全赞成利用商业——公共和私人——来扩大医疗保险覆盖范围。

You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.

你不会认为它会粘在一起。