记忆是脆弱的，我的作品试图保存那些不可避免地会消失的东西。

Music is the universal language that connects us all.

"The act of reading is an act of courage."

过去是一张地图，显示我们曾去过哪里。

Don't let your failures define you—let them teach you.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

解释：国家大而政绩小，国家的影响就跟它的政绩一样；国家小而政绩大，国家的地位也大。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.