The causal model is the key to making sense of the world.
Stories are the way we make sense of the world.
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
沉默是不可言说之物的语言。
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.