The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

I'm not a rapper, I'm a English legend.

犯罪小说是探索人类境况的完美载体。

听到了却没有亲眼见到，即使听得再多，也必有谬误；亲眼见到了却不能理解，即使记得再多，也必有错误；知道了却不去实际践行，就是知识再多，也必然困惑。

数学是模式的科学，我们研究它们以理解事物如何运作。

商业中最危险的一句话是“我们一直都是这么做的”。

小说的艺术就是无处不在的艺术。

I am now physically incapable of doing any of the things I used to enjoy, but I don’t miss them.

Innovation requires both creativity and rigor.