作家的任务就是把主角逼上绝路，然后向他扔石头。

I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.

"A good book is an event in my life."

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified in a single framework.

向一个人展示他在错误中是一回事，让他掌握真理是另一回事。