数学是模式的科学，而自然利用了每一种可能的模式。
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits every possible pattern.
比喻政府干预初衷虽好，但结果可能适得其反。
我们这个时代的巨大挑战是建立能够管理现代社会复杂性的机构。
One of the greatest ways to avoid trouble is to keep it simple...the system often goes out of control.
"I don't think that literature should be a moral institution."
写作是一种乐观的行为。
The telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
不要让别人的意见淹没了你内心的声音。
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.