The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The best music comes from the heart.

永不放弃。今天很艰难，明天会更糟，但后天会阳光灿烂。

科学中最重要的不是获得新的事实，而是发现新的思考方式。

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

——2005年2月24日 斯洛伐克首都布拉迪斯拉发，在与美国总统布什共同举行的记者招待会上就布什批评俄罗斯民主而发言

The best way to be successful is to be yourself.