The act of writing is an act of faith—in language, in the reader, in the story itself.
写作是一种信仰的行为——对语言、对读者、对故事本身的信仰。
The joy of mathematics is in the discovery of patterns and the understanding of their implications.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·通有第三》这句话给了那些投机者很大的信心，他们会说：你看，老祖宗都说想要富你得靠脑子，凭力气是赚不到大钱的，想要得利你还得住在一个靠近市集的地方，当然，我也很是承认他说的对，脑子好使，又有一个地段很好的底商，怎么会不赚钱呢？其实你要仔细想一下，这就是一句废话，你有个好地段的底商，就是租出去，自己什么也不干，也有钱拿的！这个条件，我们大部分人都是没有的！意思是创造财富在于方法，不一定要靠体力获得。获取利百润的关键在于审时度势发现商机，不一定要亲自耕种获得。
The world is full of signs, but we have forgotten how to read them.
生活中最重要的事情是能够自由地做你想做的事。
The night is a canvas, and we are the paint.
英雄是一时的，但传奇是一世的。