President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO: (As translated.) Dear Mr. President, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, this
The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. 无的价值：无中生有的可能。 That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. 这是一篇我在十一岁时写的作文，当时我拿了个乙等。 What I'm going to talk about: nothing out
We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说：我能做什么？ Not all of us can go to
Once I identified this question, it was all over the place. 一旦你意识到这个问题，就发现它无所不在。 I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there. 在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时我也知道，它们一直都在那里。
So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, 所以我决定留下来和他们一起，我写的越多，我便越相信这些信仰， and I think that's important for me -- to take on the beliefs, because that
And this, then, led to my big questions. And they're the same ones that I have today. 这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。 And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen? 为什么事情会发生，它们是怎么发生的？ And the
A big thing that I also think about is accidents. 我也时常想到意外。 And as I said, my mother did not believe in randomness. What is the nature of accidents? 如我所说，我母亲从不相信偶然。那意外又是什么？ And how are we going to ass
Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors -- actually, one of them is my mother's interpretation, 暗藏在这两个溺水故事中的比喻是其中一个说法来自我母亲， and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to
There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that included some ki
Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面，我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋， perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect.
There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it. 在量子力学中还有测不准原理，至少我想有。 And this happens constantly in the writing. 同样的事也时常发生在写作中。 And there's the terribl
Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expect
