"There are moments when the past feels so close you could reach out and touch it, and then it’s gone again, like smoke."
有些时候，过去感觉如此之近，仿佛伸手就能触碰，然后它又消失了，像烟一样。
The artist must be a shadow of the infinite.
The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy are the two most important trends of the modern era.
伟大的工程是无形的——它只是无缝地运作。