我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
建筑中最重要的是建筑与其环境之间的关系。
The deeper you go into mathematics, the more you realize how much remains unknown.
人生短暂如白马过隙，若不及时享受生活，年老时只能空自悲伤。
