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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I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

这些年来,我受到了很多批评,但有一件事让我非常恼火,那就是有人质疑我的诚信。这是唯一一件真正让你恼火的事。

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

个人利益与社会福利的平衡是文明道德的根本;但是英雄时代的道德是建立在个性的基础上的,而不是其他。

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

医生被教导对疾病而不是健康感兴趣。公众被教导的是健康是疾病的治愈之道。

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

我们不能让自己偏离轨道,不管发生什么,我们必须坚持我们的自然游戏。

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

当金钱被视为所有问题的解决方案时,金钱本身就成了问题。

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

我认为自己是一个现实主义作家,而不是肥皂剧或情节剧的创作者。

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。

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

年轻作家的问题是他们都是六十多岁。

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

维持现状是唯一不能被否决的解决方案。