We are all prisoners of our own memories.

建筑之美不在于装饰，而在于形式和空间的恰当性。

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.

Loneliness is a lifelong companion, an established fact. Instead of denying it, fighting it, and avoiding it needlessly, you’d better accept it, let it protect you from going home in the crowd, and let it accompany you to breakfast on Saturday morning and tidy up the sunshine.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

The beauty of science is that it allows us to see the world not as it is, but as it could be.

对早期宇宙的研究不仅仅是关于理解过去，也是关于揭示支配所有现实的基本法则。