"A writer's duty is to question, to challenge, and to illuminate the complexities of life."

我写歌是为了治愈自己，也治愈别人。

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

领导力是行动，而非职位。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

我不想只是一个漂亮的脸蛋。我想要有事业，并因我的才华而闻名。