"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

解释：利用时机，就像救火和追击逃亡者一样，跌跌撞撞地奔跑，只怕来不及。

政府的腐败几乎总是始于其原则的衰败。

【译文】冰与炭不能长久共存，寒与暑不会同时到来。