I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

你必须愿意失败才能成功。

每个数学问题都有一个解决方案；只是需要时间和创造力来找到它。