I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

艺术家的角色是让不可见的东西变得可见。

人类的思想是如此复杂，事物之间是如此纠缠，以至于要解释一片草叶，就必须绘制宇宙的图表。

写作是探索可能的边界。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.