写作是一种存在于世界的方式，一种观察和理解它的方式。
Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of seeing it and understanding it.
Envy, it's a real taboo to mention envy, but if there's one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy. And it's linked to the spirit of equality.
建筑是一种政治行为，它塑造了我们共同生活的方式。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
The mind is what the brain does.
The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
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.
