The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Be as you wish to seem.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He does not wish to sign His name.

我们都是等待被发掘的潜在化石。

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.