我们总是从零开始。没有先入为主的想法。

小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一面反映人类存在复杂性的镜子。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

数学是过去与未来的对话。