"The more you try to control something, the more it controls you."

成功不在于名声或奖项，而在于通过音乐触动人们的生活。

The best way to be happy is to make others happy.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

The novel is the only place where all contradictions can coexist.