“創造，對我而言，是努力使宇宙萬物和諧地結合起來從而去了解我們周遭的壹切。盡管，我們為達到這個目的而采用的種種方法都終將無法避免地歸於混沌”（Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of stratagems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos），說這句話的格林納威怎麽看都像個充滿實踐精神的虛無主義者。