我们都被过去所困扰，过去总是存在的。

比例从来不只是关于大小——它是关于关系和感知的。

Hypocrisy is the death of the self.

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out."

通往伟大歌剧的荣耀之路没有捷径。

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."