I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

The study of automorphic representations is a key to understanding the Langlands conjectures.

孩子感到越安全，就越敢分离。

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.