I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
To be a writer is to have a certain kind of sensitivity to the world, to be able to see what others do not see, to hear what others do not hear.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
最好的数学不仅仅是逻辑的——它是直观且美丽的。