我不会坐在这里试图成为别人。

It's not about how you look, it's about how you see yourself.

做数学就是与宇宙对话，寻找我们甚至可能还不知道如何提出的问题的答案。

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

The writer’s loyalty must be to literature, not to ideology.

I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.