In the quest to understand quantum gravity, we are like children playing on the shore of a vast ocean, occasionally finding a smooth pebble or a pretty shell, while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before us.

预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来。

Where all extremes and oppositions vanish, there lies Nirvana.

I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.

每个故事都是一次旅程，每次旅程都是一个故事。

To be a writer is to have a certain kind of sensitivity to the world, to be able to see what others do not see, to hear what others do not hear.

The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.