The first sentence of every novel should be: "Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human."

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.

有时候你必须先迷失自己，才能找到自己。

自由不仅仅是随心所欲的机会；也不仅仅是在既定选项之间选择的机会。自由首先是制定可用选择的机会，对它们进行辩论——然后，是选择的机会。

我相信掌握别人已经摸索出的最佳方法是一门学问。我不相信只是坐下来自己空想。

I am interested in the transformation of substances.