世界的真相是任何事情都可能发生。若非你从出生起就见惯了这一切，从而消解了它的怪异，它就会向你展现其本来面目。一场药铺里的戏法。一场高烧的梦。一场充斥着既无先例也无类比的奇美拉的恍惚。一场巡回的嘉年华。一场迁徙的帐篷秀，在许多泥泞的场地搭台后，其最终目的地是无法言说且灾难性得超乎想象的。
The truth about the world 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.
引自孟德斯鸠，刘凯湘在《民法总论》中引用并阐释其意义
【讲解】：（教学生）不到他苦思冥想怎么也弄不明白的时候，不去开导他；不到他想说而又说不出来的时候，不去启发他。告诉他（四方形）的一个角，他不能由此推出另外三个角，就不再往下教他（新知识）了。
The study of psychology is not just about understanding others; it's also about understanding ourselves.
True understanding comes from empathy.
文学有能力弥合分歧，促进来自不同背景的人们之间的共情。