The customer may not always be right, but they always come first.

Innovation requires both courage and perseverance.

From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running.

我写小说，人们说那是自传；我写自传，人们说那是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定是什么或不是什么吧。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.