"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

在科学问题上，一千人的权威抵不上一个人的谦逊推理。

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Courage is grace under pressure.

我爱她是违背常理，是妨碍前程，是失去自治，是希望破灭，是断送幸福，是注定要尝尽一切的沮丧和失望的。可是，一旦爱上了她，我再也不能不爱她。