The beauty of the Langlands program lies in its ability to reveal hidden connections.

被渴望的欲望是世界上最强大的东西。

夏天的飞鸟，飞到我窗前唱歌，又飞去了。秋天的黄叶，他们没有什麼可唱的，只是叹息一声，飞落在那里。

The great philosophers are the great lovers of truth.

真实是一个不断的过程，而不是一个静止的状态。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

每天早上我醒来时，躺着的不是我的床，住的不是我的房子，过着不是我自己的人生。