In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper. At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art. And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost. And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.

过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。

I don't care about the critics, I care about the fans.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Don’t create things to make money； make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.

国家是理性的行为体，它们寻求最大化相对权力，以确保在竞争性的国际体系中生存。

Time is a continuous entity that includes the past, present, and future.