作家的生活是一种屈辱的生活。
It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it — who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet — that they can occasionally find one.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act in a world that often rewards selfishness.
"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."