What you knew when you sat on that damned gargoyle was that the world, when all is said and done, is a wonderful and beautiful place; I know it, because I knew it at the same minute.
当你坐在那该死的滴水兽上时,你明白的是:说到底,世界是个奇妙而美丽的地方;我知道,因为我也在同一刻明白了。
— G. K. Chesterton · Manalive · Part II · I · The Eye of Death; or, the Murder Charge —