"La memoria es frágil, pero la literatura puede salvarla del olvido."

国家是理性的行为者，他们总是会按照自己的利益行事。

数学的美在于它能够以最优雅的方式描述宇宙。

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

写作是我唯一坚持做过的事情，除了结婚。

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."