事实上，我不知道我的想法从何而来。我所知道的是，当我不刻意去想它们时，它们就会出现。

——呛弗爵爷的又一条语录

要么数学对人类思维来说过于庞大，要么人类思维不仅仅是机器。

Writing is a way of making sense of the world, and of making sense of ourselves.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

To write is to resist the forces of forgetting.