I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

我总是努力忠于自己和自己的情感，这是我知道的唯一创作音乐的方式。

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. )

我们都是由故事构成的，而这些故事从来不只是属于我们自己。

中东不仅仅是一个冲突之地；它是一个充满深厚人性和未被讲述故事的地方。