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.
他说，关于世界的真相是，任何事情都是可能的。如果你不是从出生就看到了这一切，从而失去了它的陌生感，它对你来说就会显得像是一个魔术表演中的帽子戏法，一个发烧的梦，一个充满了既没有类比也没有先例的幻象的恍惚，一个巡回的嘉年华，一个在许多泥泞的田野中多次投掷后最终目的地无法言说且灾难性超出想象的迁徙帐篷表演。
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children—this is especially true in forestry.
喜剧的关键是时机，而时机的关键是耐心。
I believe that one can write a great opera with real characters， real emotions， and real situations.
我相信一个人可以通过真实的角色、真实的情感和真实的情境来创作一部伟大的歌剧。
最好的钢材不是在熔炉中制造的，而是通过团队合作和共同目标锻造的。
唯一比被人谈论更糟糕的事情是没有人谈论你。