First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

艺术不是反映现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。