在数学中，你并不理解事物。你只是习惯了它们。

I like to think of my work as a kind of translation between different systems and contexts.

旧梦很美，虽未能实现，但我很欣慰它们曾萦绕心田。

国际体系的无政府性质迫使国家争夺权力。

"The novel is a way of thinking about the world, a way of understanding the world."

我认为我成为作家的原因在于，我对现实世界与理想世界之间的差距深感兴趣。

"To understand who we are, we must first understand where we come from."