You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I don’t love novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

每天都要努力变得比起床时聪明一点。忠实而出色地履行职责。你会有条不紊地出人头地，但不一定会一蹴而就......最后，如果你活得足够长，大多数人都会得到他们应得的。

I think the most important thing for a singer is not skill, but emotion.

在生死的茫茫大海中，谁能作为渡船？在无明的漫漫长夜里，谁能成为明灯？

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.