The book is not an end in itself, it is a means of evocation.

能够想象任何事的人，可以创造不可能。

人生太重要，不能太当真。

To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you.

任何挑战中最难的部分是迈出第一步。

每一次创造的行为首先是一种破坏的行为。

The study of Galois representations is a journey into the hidden symmetries of mathematics.