Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

The best architecture comes from responding to the environment.

The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the totality of life.

I'm more interested in the intensity of the experience than in just the form.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The arithmetic of modular forms is a gateway to understanding higher-dimensional objects.

天亮了，这种疯狂的激情消失了，他犯下的可怖罪行的回忆却回来了——比以前更加可怕。在绝望中，他决定还是回伦敦去。

人生就像一首歌，有高潮也有低谷。

The energy you put out is the energy you get back.