音乐家必须创作音乐，艺术家必须绘画，诗人必须写作，只有这样他们才能最终与自己和解。

I don’t let anyone define me. I define myself.

My past doesn't define me, it refines me.

过去隐藏在我们无法察觉的某个物质对象中（在那个物质对象会给我们带来的感觉中），在理智无法触及的领域之外。

每一个词都是选择，而每一个选择都是牺牲。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

Hard to live or die hard.