The human being is born with a few reflexes and the emotional reactions of love and rage.

海洋有其风暴和平静，有其漩涡和洋流。

The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.

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.