我曾想卖出一百万张唱片，我做到了；我想获得白金认证，我也做到了。从15岁起我就从未停止工作，甚至不知道如何放松。
I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
At twenty-one, I was a divorced single mother. At thirty, I was struggling to feed my children. At forty, I was starting over in a new country. At fifty, I was rebuilding my career. At sixty, I walked the runway at Fashion Week. Life begins at every age—if you dare to make a plan.
建筑是一项非常危险的工作。如果一个作家写了一本糟糕的书，那只是一本糟糕的书。但如果一个建筑师建了一栋糟糕的建筑，那就是糟糕的生活。
生活中唯一真正的失败是不忠于自己所知道的最好的东西。
Grief is a private thing. It takes as long as it takes.
自守表示的研究是理解朗兰兹猜想的关键。
真正的喜悦精神、崇高感、超越人类的感觉，这是最高卓越的试金石，在数学中肯定能找到，就像在诗歌中一样。