将目标设的极具野心的好处在于，这样会设定非常高的标准，即使失败，也可能已经是常规意义上的成功。
The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even in failure it may be a success measured by the ordinary.
The laws of physics produce complex structures, and in at least one case, a complex structure produces the laws of physics.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.
过去从未死去。它甚至不是过去。
政治被认为是第二古老的职业。我逐渐意识到它与第一职业（指卖淫）极为相似。
过去总是与我们同在，因为它滋养着现在。
最激动人心的发现往往来自于质疑其他人认为理所当然的事情。
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.