每个人似乎都对其他人应该如何生活有清晰的想法，但对自己如何生活却没有。
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.
I'm not interested in being the best in history. I'm interested in being the best I can be.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
"The more you win, the more you want to win."
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
数学不是关于数字、方程、计算或算法的：它是关于理解的。