I don't need to be fixed. I'm not broken.

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

如果我们不考虑长期影响，开采效率就毫无意义。

Art is a response to what life does to us.

孔子说：“管理国家要以身做则。如同北极星，安然不动而众星绕之。”

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

Escribir es una forma de terapia; a veces me pregunto cómo hacen los que no escriben, los que no pintan, los que no hacen música, para escapar de la locura, de la melancolía, del terror pánico que es inherente a la condición humana.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.