The United States is experiencing a crisis of political decay, with institutions that are increasingly dysfunctional and unable to address the country's challenges.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated.

在每个故事中，都有一个隐藏的真相等待读者去发现。

阅读是不动身旅行，是不离家探索。

"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."

有些人即使没有存心做坏事，可事实上事情仍会做错，引起不幸的后果。凡是粗心大意、看不出别人的好心好意，而且缺乏果断的人，都一样能害人。

The boundary between physics and mathematics is not as clear-cut as we might think.

"I don't believe in happy endings."

I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actor.

人类的状况是永恒的苦难。