数学不是沿着一条清理得很好的高速公路小心行进，而是一次进入陌生荒野的旅程，探险者常常会迷路。
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
过去是一个异国；他们在那里做的事情不同。
"I’m a firm believer in the theory that you only play your best when you’re having fun."
"To write is to confront the chaos of existence and give it form."
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.