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If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
The ordinary is extraordinary if you look closely enough.
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last."
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
未来は、今の積み重ね。今を大切にしなければ、未来もない。
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
我没有任何特别的秘诀（用于开发新的证明）……这就是为什么做研究既具有挑战性又具有吸引力的原因。这就像在丛林中迷路，试图利用你能收集到的所有知识来想出一些新的技巧，并且如果运气好的话，你可能会找到出路。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
If everyone is honest, it is natural to be honest.
Never be the brightest person in the room; if you are, you're in the wrong room.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.