你以为这些永远不会发生在你身上，不可能发生在你身上，你是世界上唯一一个这些事都不会发生的人，然后，一件接一件，它们开始发生在你身上，就像发生在其他所有人身上一样。
You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.
The best scientists are those who remain humble in the face of nature’s complexity.
The music industry is brutal. You have to be prepared for that.
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go“That's bad.”
I wake up every morning and say to myself, ‘You’re blessed to be alive.’
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.