一本书是与死者的对话。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

We are not doing e-commerce; we are doing social e-commerce.

在一个没有上帝的世界里，我们必须创造自己的意义，即使它最终是无意义的。

每一个数学定理都是一个等待被讲述的故事，一个等待被解开的谜团。

殖民地是一个新人类计划将被测试的地方，在那里一个无国界、无种族、无国家、无阶级和无性别世界的梦想将被实现。