The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

"The world is full of stories, and every story is a world in itself."

Mental processes are biological tools for survival.

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

历史学家是一个向后看的先知。

一个人如果不讲信用，不知道他怎么能立身处世？就像牛车没有了輗，马车上没有了軏，还靠什么行走呢？