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.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

一个常见的经验是，一个晚上难以解决的问题在睡眠委员会工作后，在早上得到了解决。

重要的不是身体的力量，而是精神的力量。