作家的天赋是看到他人忽略的事物。

The city is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.

黑粉是我的动力。

That “democracy” is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: “I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions,” or something of this sort.

数学家研究纯数学不是因为它有用；他研究它是因为他喜欢它，他喜欢它是因为它美丽。