True literature should be able to change the reader's life.

I'm an early bird and a night owl. So I'm wise and I have worms.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

科学的进步依赖于挑战权威的勇气。

实现明天的唯一限制是我们今天的疑虑。

You can‘t reason someone out of a notion that they didn’t reason themselves into. 

In art, as in life, the simplest solutions are often the most profound.

The best stories are those that make us question ourselves.