我唯一能做的就是写作。其他一切都让我感到无聊。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

我故事中的人物不是英雄也不是恶棍。他们只是试图度过生活的普通人。

物理理论的美在于它能够统一看似无关的现象。

我只和自己竞争。当你与别人竞争时，反而限制了自己。

尘土承受屈辱，却以鲜花来回报。

The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?" According to how you answer that question, people are either incredibly delighted to see you, or look at their watch and make their excuses.

历史是由那些不屈服于命运的人书写的。

小说是生命之书。从这个意义上说，圣经是一部伟大的混乱小说。你可能会说，它是关于上帝的。但它实际上是关于活着的人。

写作就是抵抗，用文字的力量对抗世界的不公。