Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

突破功名利禄的束缚，突破世俗学问如考据、诗词的束缚。

对富有的单身汉应该客以重税。让某些人比其他人更快乐是不公平的。

有时候，你会不会想，如果当初试一试会怎样？

数学是理性的音乐。