To write is to confront the ghosts of our past, to give them a voice, and perhaps, to set them free.

大脑不是通用计算机，而是为解决特定适应性问题而设计的专门神经回路的集合。

The power of film lies in its ability to make us feel less alone in the world.

The boundary between physics and mathematics is not as clear-cut as one might think.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.