过去并未死去；它活在我们选择记住和重述的故事中。

对疾病和死亡的所有兴趣，只是对生命兴趣的另一种表达。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The dialogue between light and shadow creates architecture.

衡量智力的标准是改变的能力。

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

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.