世界的真相是任何事情都可能发生。若非你从出生起就见惯了这一切，从而消解了它的怪异，它就会向你展现其本来面目。一场药铺里的戏法。一场高烧的梦。一场充斥着既无先例也无类比的奇美拉的恍惚。一场巡回的嘉年华。一场迁徙的帐篷秀，在许多泥泞的场地搭台后，其最终目的地是无法言说且灾难性得超乎想象的。
The truth about the world 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.
每个故事都有一个开始，但并非每个故事都有一个结局。
衡量一个人的标准是他如何运用权力。
一个通过征税求繁荣的国家就好像一个缩在桶里想把自己提起来的人。