You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
Productivity metrics that ignore environmental impact are accounting tricks, not real progress.
无论你是身居闹市却无人问津的贫民，还是在深山都不得清静的有钱人；亲朋之间的关系往往也建立在利益之上，趋利避害是人之常情，人情冷暖、世态炎凉才是人生常态，不是每一个普通人都能达到无私高尚的境界。
逝者从未真正离去，他们活在我们讲述的故事中。