写作是一种理解世界的方式，也是理解自己的方式。

Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

效率是把事情做对，效果是做对的事情。

小说是掩盖深刻真相的谎言。

L-函数的研究不仅仅是证明定理，而是理解模式。

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.