Fiction allows us to tell truths that are too slippery for nonfiction.
唯一使生活成为可能的是永久的、无法忍受的不确定性;不知道接下来会发生什么。
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.