She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

我们这个时代最大的问题不是共产主义对个人主义，不是欧洲对美国，甚至不是东方对西方；而是人类是否能在没有上帝的情况下生活。

文学是被边缘者的声音。

与逆境不屈抗争，以无畏的气势面对敌人。

我希望人们记住的是我的音乐，而不是我的形象。