记忆可以使一件事看起来比它实际上的要多得多。
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."
作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的,他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
讲故事的力量在于它把我们与他人的人性联系起来。
The quest for a unified theory of physics is one of the greatest intellectual adventures of our time.