I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.
我喜欢星星。我想这是永恒的幻觉。我的意思是，它们总是在爆发、坍塌和熄灭。但从这里，我可以假装……我可以假装事物是永恒的。我可以假装生命比瞬间更长久。神来了，神又走了。凡人闪烁、闪耀然后消逝。世界不会持久；星星和星系是短暂的、转瞬即逝的东西，像萤火虫一样闪烁，然后消失在寒冷和尘埃中。但我可以假装。
成为一名作家就是在每一天的寒冷时分坐在桌前写作；而不是等待天才的蓝色火焰从胸骨中喷涌而出。
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
The dead are never really gone until the living stop remembering them.
"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."
In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
没有承诺，你永远不会开始，但更重要的是，没有坚持，你永远不会完成。
"Capitalism is the best system ever invented to lift people out of poverty."