Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

"Every word we speak is a seed planted in the garden of the universe."

唯一比摇滚明星更糟糕的是有事业的摇滚明星。

The city is a mirror of society.

我不是那种因为成功就快乐的人。

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

生活的荒谬不会让它失去意义，反而赋予它一种特殊的意义。