"The task of the novelist is to awaken the reader's sympathy, to make the reader care."

You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

宇宙不仅比我们想象的更奇怪，而且比我们能想象的还要奇怪。

我不相信艺术中存在绝对真理的可能性。

绘画是用双手祈祷。

来吧，我的朋友，寻找更新的世界尚为时不晚，我决心已定，要驶过夕阳尽头，尽管我们不再有昔日的伟力，可以震天撼地，我们仍有着，同样的英雄的心，时间和命运使它衰老，但坚强意志仍在，让我们去奋斗，去探索，去发现，永不屈服。

当我听到文化这个词时，我伸手去拿支票簿。