I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  • -- Fiona Shaw 菲奥娜·肖

我没有逃避任何事情,我也不清楚我要奔向什么。但正如一些伟大的作家所说,我想确定,当我到达死亡时,我已经筋疲力尽了。

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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

我们并没有在教育中给予科学太大的地位,但是我们犯了一个危险的错误,在方法上给了科学在其他学科中太大的优势。

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

大多数书,就像它们的作者一样,都是为死亡而生;只有少数几本书能说死亡对它们没有统治权;他们活着,他们的影响永远存在。

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

科幻小说比其他任何东西都能做得更好的是向我们展示我们可能的未来,以及我们能做些什么来实现好的未来,避免坏的未来。

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

作者可能知道他写一本书的意思,但是他应该马上忘记他写这本书的意思。

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

让所有的傻瓜都站在你这一边,你就能被选上任何职位。

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

我不喜欢经典的恐怖或廉价的刺激。