The Permian Basin will remain the crown jewel of U.S. oil production for decades to come.

与其苟延残喘，不如纵情燃烧。

I don't have any sense of myself except as an actor.

你们会如何运用自己的天赋？你们又会作出怎样的抉择？

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

We are all made of stories, and those stories are never truly ours alone.

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback.