I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

The mind is a complex of processes, not a thing.

我不会坐在这里说我是个榜样什么的，但我确实认为我有责任。

创新不是闭门造车，而是站在巨人的肩膀上再进一步。

Every dictatorship is a system of organized forgetting.

现实总是比我们能发明的任何虚构更复杂。

宇宙是一个比我们可能想象的更加奇妙的地方。