Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

你的天空无法变蓝是因为我。

大家都爱言论自游。但有些人对言论自游的理解是,我想说就说,但你说我不喜欢的话就无法容忍。

诗歌始于愉悦，终于智慧。

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.

"The challenge is to make the invisible visible."

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"