"To write is to breathe, and to breathe is to live."

I don’t make music for people to judge me. I make music for people to hear.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

赢得温网是一个梦想。八次夺冠是我甚至无法形容的。

I don’t let opinions influence me, I let them inform me.

人生如同逆水行舟，我也是其中的一个过客。

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.