剧作家的任务是创造一个既熟悉又陌生的世界，一个反映我们自己的世界，同时也挑战它。
The task of the playwright is to create a world that is both familiar and strange, a world that reflects our own but also challenges it.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Music should be something that takes you out of yourself for a while.
I'm not a saint, I'm a sinner.
中国的生机依靠风雷激荡的改革，万马齐喑的局面终究令人悲哀。
In Russia, the severity of laws is compensated for by the fact that it is not necessary to execute them.
——二个叔父孙学成、孙观成早年均因为贫穷必须远赴他乡做工谋生，在孙出生前后因病去世，孙看到清朝绩弱不振，受到外国强敌欺侮，增加自己从事反清革命的动机
La belleza de la poesía reside en su capacidad de decir lo indecible.
I don’t like to be put in a box. I’m always trying to do something different.