作家的任务是倾听世界的低语并赋予它们声音。
"The writer's task is to listen to the whispers of the world and give them a voice."
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
语法和语义之间的相互作用是形式语言研究的核心。
"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."
未来不是我们进入的东西。未来是我们创造的东西。
准确的观察力常被没有这种能力的人称为愤世嫉俗。