社交场中的闲逸令人厌恶的，因为它是被迫的；孤独生活中的闲逸是愉快的，因为它是自由的、出于自愿的。

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.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.