"To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that what one has to say is important enough for others to hear."

膨胀是一个非常大胆的想法，但它似乎是解释宇宙观测特征的唯一方法。

现代文化的发展特点是一个人可能称之为客观精神对主观精神的支配。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

The greatest stories are those that remain untold, hidden in the hearts of the people.