So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

"The power of words is not in their meaning, but in their ability to evoke emotion."

力量不是来自你能做什么，而是来自克服你曾经认为自己无法做到的事情。

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

数学是一门活生生的学科，随着新的思想和发现不断演变。

"You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope."