"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."

The stream of consciousness is a stream of adaptations.

“我们都是由故事组成的，而这些故事是由时间构成的。”

The process of doing mathematics is more important than the result.