在京都做官已经很长时间了，却没有高明谋略去辅佐君王。虽然有临川羡鱼的美好愿望，但等河水清不知要到哪一年。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

世界是一块画布，我们每个人都是自己方式的艺术家。

A good mathematician is someone who can see analogies between theorems; a great mathematician is someone who can see analogies between analogies.

你无法阻止浪潮，但你可以学会冲浪。