"The photograph is just the starting point. The painting is something else entirely."

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

我不想成为榜样。我想成为一个真实的人。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.