The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The deeper you go into mathematics, the more you realize how interconnected everything is.

小说是捕捉人类状况的最雄心勃勃的尝试。