To look at the symbolic dimensions of social action—art, religion, ideology, science, law, morality, common sense—is not to turn away from the existential dilemmas of life for some empyrean realm of deemotionalized forms; it is to plunge into the midst of them.
关注社会行动的符号维度——艺术、宗教、意识形态、科学、法律、道德、常识——并不是为了逃避生活的存在困境，进入某种超然的、去情感化的形式领域；而是为了深入这些困境的核心。
The most successful auctions are those where bidders trust the process.
Memory is the last fortress against forgetting.
决定胜负的不是狗的体型大小，而是狗的战斗意志。
人生的目的，无论由谁控制，都是去爱那些在你身边值得被爱的人。
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
"黑暗永远存在，只需要学会直视它。"