Art is a mirror held up to society, but it’s also a hammer with which to shape it.

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

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

过去并未死去，它甚至还未过去。