You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

读书最要紧的就是勤学好问，做人最要紧的就是实实在在而持之以恒。

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

"The most powerful stories are the ones that refuse to be forgotten."

对于任何名副其实的艺术家来说，自然界中的一切都是美丽的，因为他的眼睛无畏地接受所有外在的真理，像在一本打开的书中一样，在那里读到所有内在的真理。

"You can't predict, but you can prepare."