因此可以知道,天是希望人们互相关爱.互相帮助,而不希望人们互相憎恶.互相残害的。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

最个人的东西也是最普遍的。

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The story is a vehicle to carry ideas, not the other way around.

人生は、思い通りにならないことが美しい。

在数学中，最简单的问题往往导致最深刻的发现。