Purchase the most recent tourist guidebook to your home town or region. You’ll learn a lot by playing the tourist once a year.

Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.

朗兰兹纲领是探索数学中最深刻问题的框架。

Writing is a way of preserving the truth.

我希望我的艺术成为一声尖叫、一声哭泣、一声呐喊。

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

智慧的终极目标是梦想足够高远，以至于在追寻过程中忘却这个梦想本身。

教学的全部艺术，不过是唤醒年轻人天生的好奇心，以便日后满足它。

Fiction is a way of telling the truth without being constrained by facts.