"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteencenturies, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?（From Jane Lampton Clemens）

Nature is to be followed, but only when it is refined by art.

A building should grow from its site like a tree from the earth.

All life comes from an egg.

In computer science, we often find that the simplest solutions are the most elegant.

最严重的罪行不是以邪恶的名义犯下的，而是以善的名义犯下的。

我们不必比别人更聪明，但必须比别人更有纪律性。