小说是可能的艺术，而可能总是比现实更可怕。

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now.

Mathematics is a collaborative endeavor. No one does it alone.

People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

Ethernet is a shared medium, and the key to its success is its simplicity.

"I write to find myself, but I always end up losing myself."

文化的解释不是寻找规律的实验科学，而是寻找意义的解释性科学。

I don’t follow the rules, I make them.

Art is a response to what life does to us.