The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·诏圣》。目，网眼。不可，不能。法律制度太粗疏难以治国，就像网眼太少的渔网往往网不到鱼一样。这句话以比喻之法说明立法要周全、精细，不能失之粗疏，否则不易于执法者依法操作。而不能操作，执法者就有了太大的自由度，这就等于没有法律了。

"A writer’s job is to pay attention to the world."

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.