Nothing will come of nothing.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

诗人是打破沉默的人，是第一个说话的人，是敢于说话的人。

The severe morals of the early Romans produced a race of men who were neither superstitiously devout nor philosophically skeptical.

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.