"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You wouldn't take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

"We think we’re the ones who notice things, but really it’s the things that notice us."

The study of mathematics is the study of patterns.

我一直在想某个地方的河流，水流非常快。水里有两个人，试图紧紧抓住对方，但最终水流太强了，他们不得不放手，随波逐流。