My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

过去是一个异国；他们在那里做事的方式不同。

In science, the most important discoveries often come from paying attention to the unexpected.

I’m living the life I dreamed about when I was broke.