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 only way to get better is to compete against the best.

我相信诗歌是一种表达无法表达之物的方式。

幸福需要快乐和目标两者兼具——仅靠其中一项是不够的。

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.