The greatest happiness of a teacher is to send groups of children to the other shore of their ideals.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The more surreal it is, the more I like it.

如果没有储备武器，即使拥有真理和正义，也无法去征讨那些不义之人。