I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Never underestimate the power of a strong company culture.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

我的品味最简单。我总是对最好的感到满意。

History taught us is that people never know learn the lessons of history.

The choices we make each day—what we buy, what we eat, how we live—all have an impact.

Algebraic geometry is the study of zeros of polynomials.