数学不是一项观赏性运动。你必须亲自去做才能理解它。

The true value of a mathematician lies in the problems they leave behind.

作家的职责就是打破平静

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

作家的任务是照亮人类心灵的黑暗角落。