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.

灵魂被放置在身体中，就像一颗粗糙的钻石，必须经过打磨，否则它的光泽永远不会显现。

The architect must be a student of life.

建筑是一个时代意志转化为空间。

在大学里，他们不会告诉你，法律的大部分是学会容忍傻瓜。