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 take up novel writing.

数学之美不仅在于它描述世界的能力，还在于它揭示支配世界的隐藏结构的力量。

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. But, I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

语言是存在的家。人在其家中居住。

I'm not a girl who gives up. I'm a girl who fights.