沉默是对每个人观点价值的漠视，它意味着不尊重我们能够文明地提出不同意见的能力。 Read more

还是有点太正能量了…… Read more

“有时我看到一些东西，我会想‘那不错’，但这并不是说我没有它就无法活下去。它没有重要到我要为了拥有它而找一份我厌恶的工作去上班。” Read more

‘There’s no way to do business in the Third World without enriching government leaders,’ said Calil. He explained how the practice of greasing the palms of African potentates evolved: ‘You used to give a dictator a suitcase of dollars; now you give a tip on your stock shares, or buy a housing estate from his uncle or mother for ten times its worth.’ Read more

I said that in this book I’d be talking to you about the economy, but you’ll have noticed by now that it’s impossible to talk about the economy without talking about politics. Read more

even as it promises independence and mobility, adventure and opportunity, escape and safe haven, it is also an essential tool of government surveillance and state power, ostensibly assuring homeland security and regulated traffic across national boundaries Read more

And I get to be a widow again Read more

Illness strips you back to an authentic self, but not one you need to meet. Too much is claimed for authenticity. Painfully we learn to live in the world, and to be false. Then all our defences are knocked down in one sweep. In sickness we can’t avoid knowing about our body and what it does, its animal aspect, its demands. Read more

I kept saying ‘within six months I will be out’, but the more I repeated it, the more I began to doubt my own words. It’s not the despair that kills you: it’s the hope. Read more