I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Mathematics is the foundation upon which all sciences are built.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

写作即抵抗——抵抗遗忘，抵抗压迫，抵抗记忆的抹除。

A literatura é a arte de transformar palavras em sentimentos.

The moral feeling of human nature is an obligation， and we must endow the soul with the sense of beauty.

To name something is to begin to free oneself from it.

我们都是一样的，但我们又都不同。

There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.

"A good story is a good story, no matter how it's told."