"Los Angeles is the city of the future—always."

The deeper you go into mathematics, the more you realize how interconnected everything is.

解释：明智的人不违背时机而放弃有利的行动，勇士不回避死亡而埋没名声，忠臣不先顾及自己后顾及国君。

There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.

善良高尚的人，在贫穷而没有能力去用物质接济别人的情况下，如果遇到别人有迷惑犯傻的地方，能用一句好话来提醒他们；遇到别人有着急和作难的地方，能用一句好话来解救他们，那么他的功业与德行同样是无法计算的。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

"A children's book is the first art gallery they visit."

The writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother.