我们不只是制造家具，我们为生活中最重要的时刻创造背景。
——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
找到自己的最好方法就是在追求更伟大的事物中迷失自己。
应对死亡的唯一方法是将之前的一切转化为艺术。
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
我想起我那堆旧平装书，书页已经变得松软，仿佛它们曾经属于大海。
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.