The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.

一种心理状态的意义在于它所导致的结果。

"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."

科学的真正价值在于它改变我们视角的能力。

The writer’s task is to bear witness.

老师声称代数是完美而自然的、我们应无条件地接受它，而我甚至不能理解什么是数。对我来说数学课完全就是恐怖和折磨。我完全不理解代数，这使我胆怯得不敢问任何问题。

写作是一种思考的方式，是一种解决问题的方式。