I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

In India, we have a saying: 'The rooster coop is full of chickens who don't realize they're in a cage.'

谋划事情无主见，就会陷入困境；做事没有准备好，容易归于失败。

I am not interested in the unique, but in the banal.

The Langlands program is a vision of how mathematics could be unified.

每一本书都是一段旅程，而每一段旅程都会改变读者。