To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.

解释：善于制造弓箭的工匠之子，必须先从编织簸箕开始；善于冶炼的工匠之子，必须从连缀皮裘开始。

The world is full of signs and wonders, but we are blind to them.

文学让我们能够活出千种人生，体验千种情感。

科学是一种思维方式，远不止是一堆知识。

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.