在科学中最令人兴奋的短语,预示着新发现的,不是“我找到了!”而是“这有点奇怪……”
有用是这些老人曾经对自己最好的希望,而无目的是他们最深的恐惧。
 人们害怕死亡,就像孩子害怕黑暗一样;而且,正如孩子对黑暗的自然恐惧会受到各种故事的加剧一样,人们对死亡的恐惧也是如此。
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.