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.
世界的真相是任何事情都可能发生。若非你从出生起就见惯了这一切,从而消解了它的怪异,它就会向你展现其本来面目。一场药铺里的戏法。一场高烧的梦。一场充斥着既无先例也无类比的奇美拉的恍惚。一场巡回的嘉年华。一场迁徙的帐篷秀,在许多泥泞的场地搭台后,其最终目的地是无法言说且灾难性得超乎想象的。
The whole of life is an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
小说是一种永远处于危机中、濒临消失边缘的艺术形式,而这正是它保持生命力的原因。
有两样东西,人们越是经常持久地对之凝神思索,它们就越是使内心充满常新而日增的惊奇和敬畏:我头上的星空和我心中的道德律。
当人们清楚目标是什么,以及为什么要达成这个目标时,他们的工作会卓有成效。每天早上,人们应该期待着上班,享受工作,这一点很重要。
安全困境是国际政治的一个基本特征,因为国家增加自身安全的努力往往会降低其他国家的安全。