世界可能很刻薄，但人们不必如此。

I am interested in the margins, in those who have been excluded from history.

我唯一知道的是我一无所知。

过去是一团永不停止燃烧的火。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.