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.

心灵分为有时会相互冲突的部分。就像骑在大象背上的骑手，意识、推理的心灵部分对自动、情感的部分只有有限的控制。

时间和其他材料一样，是我不断使用的材料。

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

伟大的领导者愿意做出他人回避的艰难决定。

可持续性不仅仅是一个流行词；它是负责任的采矿的基础。