如果你至少不尝试做一些非凡的事情，那么活着的意义是什么？

——辛格1978年诺贝尔文学奖获奖演说

Art has the power to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

"I don't think of myself as a female filmmaker. I think of myself as a filmmaker."

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up.

"I am not interested in the average. I am interested in the extreme."

The true value of a forest can never be measured in board feet alone.