We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

我相信讲故事的力量可以改变人们的观点。

——抵日本神户时谈话，1895年11月12日

I'm not a dreamer, I'm a doer.