尿素合成是一个幸运的发现，但它开辟了一个新的研究领域。

真正的革命者是被伟大的爱所引导的。无法想象一个缺乏这种品质的真正革命者。

The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.

I’m not here to please everyone.

"Sometimes the hardest part of writing is just starting."

In mathematics, the journey is as important as the destination.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

最好的领导者是那些培养更多领导者的人，而不是追随者。