The final test of a novel is whether you care so much for the people that you want to know what happens to them next.

城市是集体创作的艺术品。

宇宙是不对称的，我相信我们所知道的生命是宇宙不对称的直接结果或其间接后果。

永远不要停止学习；一旦停止，你就会过时。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

When we think we have been understood, we feel we can control the world around us.

India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.