If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

You can't control what you don't measure.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up.

你不能对任何情况生气，你得嘲笑它。

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The novel is the great art form of the human condition.