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.

I'm not a star in my own eyes. I'm just a person.

我们看到的不是事物的本质，而是自己的本质。

追求数学知识是一段永无止境的旅程。

金钱不是我的动力。我的激情驱使我前进。