合同本质上是不完全的，因为不可能预见所有未来的偶然事件。

Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.

I don’t let the future scare me, I let it excite me.

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.