The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

世界越变得非理性，系统就显得越理性。

The story is not in the plot; the plot is the net you throw over the story to catch it.

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

入门统计学课本一开始讲的几个要点之一，就是相关性不是因果性。这也是最先被忘记的要点之一。