每个故事在被相信之前都是谎言。

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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.

世界是一个舞台，但演员选得很糟糕。

Children understand more than we often give them credit for.