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.

精神生活是唯一值得过的生活。

幸福不仅仅是悲伤的缺席；它是意义的在场。

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

宇宙不仅比我们想象的更奇怪，它比我们能想象的还要奇怪。

The molecule of DNA is the basis of all life, and understanding it is understanding life itself.