"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

I don't complain, I don't justify myself, I accept what comes and keep working.

"We think we’re the ones who notice things, but really it’s the things that notice us."

"Books are the bridges that connect us to the unknown."

我不在乎名声或金钱。我在乎的是音乐。