The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

凡是存在的事物就天然具有合理性。

最好的角色是那些在合上书后仍久久留在你心中的角色。

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

心灵进化是为了应对存在的挑战。