11.1 The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it or what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding things better to it. 过去是我们给自己下的定义。 我们有很好的理由去努力摆脱它, 或是摆脱其中不好的部分, 但摆脱它的唯一途径是 ——在其中添加更好的东西。
11.5 One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist..... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. 宇宙的基本准则之一: 金无足赤, 人无完人。 这世上不存在所谓的“完美”。 没了这种“不完美”, 你我将不复存在。