The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing love songs.
Every mental state exists for a purpose; to understand it, we must ask what function it serves in the broader system of behavior.
宇宙不仅比我们想象的更奇怪,它比我们能想象的还要奇怪。