数学不是沿着一条清理干净的高速公路小心翼翼地行进，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.
作家应该是他时代的见证者，现实的记录者。
解释：善于制造弓箭的工匠之子，必须先从编织簸箕开始；善于冶炼的工匠之子，必须从连缀皮裘开始。
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
I don’t love novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
我写作是为了理解我周围的世界。