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.

“唯一永恒的是现在。”

The spread of liberal democracy has been accompanied by the spread of a global culture that is increasingly homogeneous.

土地是我们最伟大的老师，我们必须倾听它并向它学习。

自然应当被遵循，但前提是经过艺术的提炼。