We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The beauty of mathematics is that it allows us to abstract away from the physical world and focus on the underlying principles.

We can’t just keep doing things the way we’ve always done them. The world has changed, and so must we.

小说是一个伟大的发现：远比伽利略的望远镜或别人的无线电报更伟大。小说是人类迄今为止达到的最高表达形式。为什么？因为它是如此无法达到绝对。

有机体感知的不是刺激，而是环境中的物体。