The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them.

【译文】 孔子说：“不怕没人了解自己，就怕自己不了解别人。”

The most important quality for a researcher is persistence.

我们从地下开采的石头承载着4亿年的历史，我们只是暂时的保管者。

I don't regret my past; I just regret the time I wasted on the wrong people.

音乐是唯一能真正超越界限的东西。