To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

我母亲是无神论者。她曾说，地狱是好事也是坏事。好就好在，地狱只是人类病态想象的产物；坏就坏在，人类想象什么，就会创造什么。

科学的进步是逐渐认识到我们面临的问题并不像它们看起来那么简单。