Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

没有艺术；没有文学；没有社会；最糟糕的是，持续的恐惧和暴力死亡的危险；人的生命是孤独、贫穷、丑陋、野蛮和短暂的。

从长远来看，经济前景对那些灵活且消息灵通的人是有利的。

I always try to improve myself.

我不在乎别人怎么说我，我知道我是谁。

The only thing I'm interested in is seeing. Not in having seen, but in seeing itself.