It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
The study of mathematics is a constant dialogue between the concrete and the abstract.
I'm interested in the gap between how we present ourselves and who we really are.
"Every story is a puzzle, and the writer's job is to put the pieces together in a way that reveals a deeper truth."
最好的设计解决了你甚至不知道自己存在的问题。