I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
我会告诉你我会做什么和不会做什么。我不会再为我所不再相信的东西服务，无论它自称是我的家、我的祖国还是我的教会：我将尽力以某种生活或艺术的方式自由而完整地表达自己，用我允许自己使用的唯一武器来保护自己——沉默、流放和狡黠。
The worst thing that can happen to a human being is to lose hope.
The genome is a palimpsest of evolutionary history.
We must measure success not just in profits, but in impact.
The past does not belong to us; we belong to it.
The act of writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Real music comes from the heart, not for show.