Waste is just raw material in the wrong place.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

最简单的故事往往有最深刻的含义。

The most important thing is to be passionate about what you do.

最好的小说是那些让你在世界上感到不那么孤独的小说。

数学不是一门演绎科学——那是陈词滥调。当你试图证明一个定理时，你不仅仅是列出假设然后开始推理。你所做的是反复试验、实验和猜测。