Literature is the best weapon against intolerance and fanaticism.

精神的平静是最高境界。

The theory of reductive groups is the backbone of the Langlands program.

If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

The best works of art are those that continue to reveal new meanings over time.