We do not own our memories; they own us.

To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.

我不喜欢赌博，但如果有一件事我愿意赌，那就是我自己。

I became a writer to escape the despair of the real world, and enter the world of hope I create with my imagination.

不以对话方式行事，而是坚持强加其决定的领导者，不是在组织人民——他们是在操纵人民。他们不解放，也不被解放：他们在压迫。

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

I don't want to be famous, I want to be great.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.