Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
People tend to value things more highly when they own them.
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.
科学不是形式逻辑——它需要思想的自由发挥,与其他任何创造性艺术一样。
活着就是受苦,生存就是在苦难中找到某种意义。