只有分子存在。其他一切都是社会学。
There are only molecules. Everything else is sociology.
我在创作音乐时不会考虑流派,我只做感觉对的音乐。
统计学中最重要的不是数字,而是产生它们的方法及其背后的意义。
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.