Good science requires both creativity and discipline.

Writing is a way of trying to understand what happens to us.

Literature is a weapon against forgetting.

不要害怕问愚蠢的问题。因为99%的情况下其他人也想问同样的问题，只是因为怕尴尬而羞于提问。

被原谅只是礼物的一半。另一半是我们也可以原谅，恢复失去的，修补破碎的。

我们学得越多，就越意识到自己的无知。

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.