The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

Every act of writing is an act of betrayal.

I'm not trying to be the next anybody. I'm trying to be the first me.

我们今天所做的每一个决定，都在塑造我们为后代留下的水产养殖遗产。

我唱的每一首歌都是我内心的一部分。

I’m a big believer in that whatever’s meant to happen will always find a way.