The act of writing is an act of self-discovery.
The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
最好的電影是那些在你離開電影院后仍久久留在你心中的電影。
對感受者來說，生活是悲劇；對思考者來說，生活是喜劇。