Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Our stories are our survival, our resistance, our hope.

最好的文学源于冲突，源于欲望与道德之间的斗争。

I'm the reason your grass won't grow.

但我想让你们知道，任何事情的一开始对于我们未必明朗，正如我所说我19岁（1973年）就开始上电视，然而到了1994年我才渐渐清楚，所以不要期待一下子就想清楚、并马上明白自己的使命。

有人因为我不像他们而轻视我、贬低我，但这并没有阻止我。