作家是一个总是试图寻找真相的人，关于他自己的真相，关于世界的真相，关于生活的真相。

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

The past is never truly past; it lives inside us.

夢は、追いかけるものではなく、追いかけられるものだ。