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And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
The personal is the starting point of all literature.
I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
All writing is an attempt to escape the self.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
我没有任何特别的秘诀（用于开发新的证明）……这就是为什么做研究既具有挑战性又具有吸引力的原因。这就像在丛林中迷路，试图利用你能收集到的所有知识来想出一些新的技巧，并且如果运气好的话，你可能会找到出路。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.
The study of the early universe is not just about understanding the past, but also about uncovering the fundamental laws that govern all of reality.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
In string theory, all particles are vibrations of a tiny supersymmetric string.
The laws of physics are the same everywhere in the universe, and that is a profound truth that connects us all.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
"Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is."