人们为了自己幸福，会让别人不幸。
Music is my way of communicating with the world.
It’s not about the car. It’s about the person driving the car.
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
今天很残酷，明天更残酷，后天很美好，但绝对大部分是死在明天晚上，所以每个人不要放弃今天。
我不害怕与众不同。
To talk about painting is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too.
The poet is a man who can find beauty in the ugliest of things.
——1996年5月29日在哈佛大学演讲
翻译：遏止邪恶而弘扬善行，顺从天意而赞美生命。
科学人应当没有愿望、没有情感，只剩一颗如石之心。
外交需要保持冷静和理智，不受情绪和个人偏见的影响。