The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

"Luxury is the only sector that can combine the past and the future in a way that is both timeless and modern."

最令人兴奋的突破往往来自意想不到的地方。

In Russia, the harshness of the laws is softened by the fact that they are not enforced.

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.