The most necessary, the most important, the principal, the most essential thing for a musician is this: to know what he wants, what he can do, and what he ought to do.

我是一个赢得特纳奖的异装癖陶艺家——这相当小众。

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.

The beauty of mathematics is not in its complexity, but in its simplicity and the profound truths it reveals about the universe.

革命是被压迫和被剥削者的节日。