The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

Man barricades against himself.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

"The greatest wisdom lies in understanding that we know nothing at all."

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.