现实只是一抹幻影，尽管它从不消散。

The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.

写作的艺术在于描述世界如其所是，同时如其所可能是。

Innovation comes from challenging the status quo and being open to new ideas.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.