我们对自然的自觉认识所能解决的最直接且在某种意义上最重要的问题，是对未来事件的预测，以便我们能根据这种预测安排当前的事务。

我不在乎格莱美奖，我不在乎名声。

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

沉默是上帝的语言；其他一切都是一种拙劣的翻译。

逃脱历史重负的唯一方法就是书写它。

Greatness is not given, it’s earned.

你必须先爱自己，别人才会爱你。