"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

译文：如果得了财产却损失了自己的德行，这样的行为我是不会去做的。

The elegance of a proof is as important as its correctness.

"A novel is a world you can hold in your hands."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."