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.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

原子能的释放并没有创造新的问题。它仅仅是把解决一个现有问题的工作变得更为急迫。

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.