生如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美。

Good means not merely not to do wrong， but rather not to desire to do wrong.

I'm not a role model, I'm a cautionary tale.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and we study them to understand how things work.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.