You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

Financial crises are not acts of God. They are caused by human actions and can be prevented by human actions.

"The best stories are the ones that ask questions, not just provide answers."

我不迷信，但我有点小迷信。

It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."