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.

We are all ghosts of ourselves, haunting the places we once lived.

The most important thing is that you have a North Star. You have to know where you're going.

风俗习惯是人类生活的重要指南。

We must remember that literature is not just entertainment, it has a deeper meaning.

怀疑是艺术家最诚实的伙伴。