All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

Writing is a way of life, a way of being in the world.

"我不是一种语言，我是一个词。"

La literatura es el arte de la paciencia y el asombro.

To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration.

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.