Cities are a stage where life is played out.

并不是我很聪明，而只是我和问题相处得比较久一点。

世界上充满了神奇的事物，耐心地等待我们的智慧变得更加敏锐。

"The greatest threat to the planet is the idea that someone else will save it."

Legal rules are not commands but rather standards of conduct.

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.