We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.
我们只在童年时看过一次世界。其余都是记忆。
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.