世界
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
The best stories are those that remind us that the world is alive.
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong.
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
"To be a spy is to live in a world of constant doubt and suspicion."
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
"The world is full of stories, but the ones that matter most are the ones we tell ourselves."
The world is a mosaic of fleeting moments, each one precious in its own right.
The world is so full of simple, obvious, and beautiful things that it's a wonder anyone ever bothers to invent anything at all.
"We are all just trying to do our best in a world that doesn't always make sense."
"The world is a mysterious place, and we are all just trying to find our way through it."
The world is always ending for someone.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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.
He said that the world was made for men to fight in and that the worth of a thing was the worth of the fight for it.
"Writing is an act of courage, a way to confront the world and our place within it."
"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."