我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。

教育者必须是一位心理学家，以便理解儿童。

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Reason is immortal， all else mortal.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Every decision we make today will ripple through the oceans of tomorrow.

数学思想的美丽之处在于它可以跨越文化和时间被分享和理解。

作家的生活是一种痴迷的生活。