What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Under totalitarianism, silence is also a form of resistance.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and you can just enjoy the things around you.

寻求统一的物理理论是我们时代最伟大的智力冒险之一。

We are all products of chance and necessity.

The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe with such precision.