And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.

美是一封能打开所有心灵的推荐信。

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

作家必须甘于冒险。

无论你注定要做什么，现在就做。条件总是不可能的。

真理的最小原子也代表着某个人艰苦的劳动和痛苦。

纸的未来不是取代数字；而是共存并互相增强。

The beauty of mathematics lies in its ability to describe the universe in the simplest terms.

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination.