哪里没有兴趣，哪里就没有记忆。 - 每日文摘

我向来就偏科偏得厉害，早些年，我几乎把所有的精力都投入到学习自然学科上面。我没有时间，也没有耐心去学习所谓的人文学科，即便是大学里那些必修的课程。我尽量逃避学习这些课程，不愿在那上头花费精力。后来，我年岁大了一些，生活节奏没那么快了，我的兴趣也多了那么一点点。我学了画画，也开始阅读一些书。但是总的来说，我还是偏科很厉害的一个人，我知道的东西很有限。我的智慧有限，我只把它用在一个特定的地方。

理查德·费曼

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

你无法回到家乡，回到你的家庭，回到你的童年，回到浪漫的爱情，回到年轻人对荣耀和名声的梦想，回到流亡，逃到欧洲和某个外国，回到抒情，为了唱歌而唱歌，回到唯美主义，回到你年轻时对“艺术”和美的想法，回到象牙塔，回到乡村的地方，回到百慕大的小屋，远离世界上所有的冲突和斗争，回到你失去并一直在寻找的父亲，回到可以帮助你、拯救你、减轻你负担的人，回到那些曾经看似永恒但一直在变化的旧形式和系统——回到时间和记忆的逃避。