The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The human being is always more than what he knows of himself.

我是一个注重过程的女人。我尽力去迎接每一次挑战，尽力去品味每一次经历，并从中学有所获。生活从不乏味。

The poem is a way of understanding the world, not just explaining it.

Modularity based on abstraction is the way things ought to be done.

Be brave enough to be bad at something new.

我认为孩子们天生好奇，对新想法持开放态度，这是我在书中试图捕捉的东西。