The truth about the world 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.
Mathematics is a creative endeavor, just like art or music.
The writer’s mission is to be a witness to his time, to speak for those who cannot speak.
历史学家是反向的先知。
译文：连续地打仗，百姓就会感到劳苦；长期打仗，士兵就会感到疲惫。
一个人能经历的最美好的事物就是神秘。
你能经历的最大冒险就是过你梦想的生活。
"A novel is never finished; it is only abandoned."