The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

Success is the best revenge for anybody doubting you.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters， pain and pleasure.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.