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.

The discovery of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the galactic center was a turning point in astrophysics.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

作家是一个热爱文字、痴迷于文字、被文字所占据的人。

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You wouldn't take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.