I don’t have time to worry about something as trivial as what I look like.
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.
阿拉伯文学的美在于它能够将历史与想象编织在一起。
The greatest breakthroughs often come from unexpected places.
我们看到的这个看起来如此疯狂的世界是一个信仰体系不起作用的结果。要以不同的方式感知世界,我们必须愿意改变我们的信仰体系,让过去消逝,扩展我们对现在的感知,并化解我们心中的恐惧。