"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."

The past is not a foreign country; it is our own.

The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.

找到可能性的极限的唯一方法就是超越它们进入不可能。