"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

生活是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy are the two main forces driving the world towards the end of history.

I've always been attracted to the lyric poem because of what it omits.