The novel is a machine for generating meaning.

大都市作为一个有辨别力的生物，要求人比乡村生活更多的意识。

I always wanted to be a singer, and I focused on that goal, even when others told me I couldn't do it.

在心理学领域，正常与异常之间的界限往往是模糊和主观的。

创新不仅仅是技术问题，更是改变我们思维和运营方式的问题。

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.

The most important actions are never comfortable.